The people of Godlbozhits [eBook - hoopla]

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The people of Godlbozhits

(2017)

By: Rashkịn, Leyb, 1903 or 1904-1939

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[United States] : Syracuse University Press, 2017
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ISBN/ISSN

9780815654186 (electronic bk.) MWT11991802, 0815654189 (electronic bk.) 11991802

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English

NOTES

First published in 1936, The People of Godlbozhits depicts the ordinary yet deeply complex life of a Jewish community, following the fortunes of one family and its many descendants. Set in a shtetl in Poland between the world wars, Rashkin's satiric novel offers a vivid cross-section not only of the residents' triumphs and struggles but also of their dense and complicated web of humanity. With biting humor and acerbic wit, Rashkin portrays the stratified society-the petty bourgeoisie, artisans, and proletariat-observing the crookedness at every level. The novel's brisk and oftentimes lively Yiddish prose and its colorful and irascible cast of characters give readers a Yiddish Yoknapatawpha in all its tragic absurdity

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