Pioneers

The First Breach
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8156-1084-7
Verlag: Syracuse University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 282 g

Reihe: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

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 shetl on the brink of transformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

An-Sky, S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Waldman, Rose

Über Autor(innen)

S. An-sky pseudonym of Shloyme-Zanvl Rapoport (1863-1920), was a Russian Jewish writer, ethnographer, and cultural and political activist. He is best known today for his play The Dybbuk.

Rose Waldman's translations have appeared in Pakn Treger, Circumference, Inventory, as a chapbook, and Married by I. L. Peretz, and elsewhere. She has received a translation fellowship from the Yiddish Book Center.