Author : Miriam Roshwald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0893702455
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Ghetto, Shtetl, Or Polis? by : Miriam Roshwald
Download or read book Ghetto, Shtetl, Or Polis? written by Miriam Roshwald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Miriam Roshwald here examines the role of the nineteenth-century ghetto or shtetl through the eyes of three contemporaneous Jewish writers: Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), Sholom Aleichem (aka Sholom Rabinovitz, 1859-1916), and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (aka Samuel Josef Czaczkes, 1888-1970).