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Bociany

Bociany

Rosenfarb, Chava
Rosenfarb, Chava

Paperback

Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0815611714
ISBN13: 9780815611714
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe's widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the chalk vendor Yossele Abedale, and his daughter Binele. Jewish relations with neighboring Catholics are generally civil, if complicated. Despite living next door to a convent, Hindele finds the nuns' behavior implacably alien.

Rosenfarb establishes an indelible sense of place, evoking its charm and the shtetl residents' ease with the natural world. Her vivid characters and portrait of the preurban, pre-Holocaust world ring true. Yet even in isolated Bociany, new ideas--socialism, Zionism, Polish nationalism, secularism--begin to challenge the shtetl's traditional agrarian and mercantile economy.

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