Everyday Jews

Everyday Jews
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9780300116373
ISBN-13 : 0300116373
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Book Synopsis Everyday Jews by : Yehoshue Perle

Download or read book Everyday Jews written by Yehoshue Perle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Everyday Jews was first published in Poland in 1935, the Jewish Left was scandalized by the sex scenes, and I. B. Singer complained that the novel was too bleak to be psychologically credible. Yet within two years Perle’s novel was heralded as a modern Yiddish masterpiece. Offering a unique blend of raw sexuality and romantic love, thwarted desire and spiritual longing, Everyday Jews is now considered Perle’s consummate achievement. The voice of Mendl, the novel's 12-year-old narrator, is precisely captured by this artfully simple translation. Mendl's impoverished and dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a nameless Polish provincial town. In his unsettled world, most ordinary people yearn to be somewhere else—or someone else. As Mendl journeys to adulthood, Perle captures the complex interplay of Christians and Jews, weekdays and Sabbaths, town and country, dream and reality, against a relentless and never-ending battle of the sexes.


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