A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth CenturyIn an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century. |
Contents
ONE The Commitment to Yiddish | 1 |
TWO A Language as Caliban | 34 |
THREE The Mimic Writer and His Little Jew | 67 |
FOUR On Native Ground | 95 |
SIX The Mendele Maze 11 The Folkstip Fallacy | 169 |
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