Download or read book Shayndl and Salomea written by Salomea Genin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stories both told and untold, Genin recreates the lives of the Zwerling family in the Jewish quarter of Lemberg (Lvov): There is her strict, deeply religious grandfather, Shulim, the patriarch; his patient but tired wife, Dvoire; and his beautiful and rebellious daughter, Shayndl, who marries the dreamer Avram Genin against her father's wishes and without his blessing, and who will later become Salomea Genin's mother.