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Pioneers: The First Breach

Pioneers: The First Breach

Waldman, Rose
An-Sky, S.
Deutsch, Nathaniel

Hardcover

Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0815635044
ISBN13: 9780815635048
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: May 11 2017
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what's in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town quickly become divided, with some regarding Itzkowitz as the devil's messenger and others supportive of his progressive ideas. Set during the time of the Haskalah, the great Jewish Enlightenment that was sweeping through Europe, Pioneers is a charming tale of one ambivalent young man's attempt to join the movement and a compassionate portrait of one shtetl on the brink of transformation.

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