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Bociany (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815611714)
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xIn 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.Author: Chava Rosenfarb
ISBN-10: 0815611714
ISBN-13: 9780815611714
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
By Chava Rosenfarb
xChava Rosenfarb was born in Lz, Poland. She was a survivor of the Lz Ghetto as well as the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She was the recipient of numerous literary prizes. In 1979, she was awarded the Manger Prize--the highest award for Yiddish literature--for her trilogy Tree of Life (Der boim fun leib).
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