Pioneers : a tale of Russian-Jewish life in the 1880s
(2014)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Indiana University Press, 2014
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780253012142 (electronic bk.) MWT12261369, 0253012147 (electronic bk.) 12261369
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
S. An-Sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage and a young Russian woman leave home so she can pursue her studies at a European university. This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a revolutionary time
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