Bociany - Paperback

Name: Bociany - Paperback
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SKU: 9780815611714
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by Chava Rosenfarb

$21.55

Book Overview

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.

ISBN	9780815611714
Author	Chava Rosenfarb
Publisher	Syracuse University Press
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	October 2024
Language	ENG- English
Pages	440
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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