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- catalog abstract ""The events of this novel unfold through the eyes of Hershl, who leaves his small town to become educated only to return to the Pale of Settlement in the wake of the pogroms in 1881. S.Y. Abramovitsh's famed epic novel explores the social upheaval of Russian Jews who are forced by poverty to leave their homes. As he traces the dissolution of the Eastern European shtetl and traditional Jewish life, Abramovitsh narrates a coming-of-age story of a shtetl child with a fresh and inspired perspective. The novel achieved canonical status both in its Yiddish original and in its Hebrew version, but under the title, In the Vale of Tears." "In this work Michael Wex renders the time-honored tale with the skill and ease of a modern storyteller and humorist. Abramovitsh's artistry lies not in the plot but in the descriptions and ever-shifting narrative voice. Sometimes the narrator (Mendele the Book Peddler) speaks from within the shtetl and sometimes from outside; and often he interweaves the high rhetorical prose of Hershl himself, reborn by the novel's end as Heinrich Cohen."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Ṿinshfingerl. English".
- catalog contributor b12919384.
- catalog contributor b12919385.
- catalog coverage "Russia History 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In this work Michael Wex renders the time-honored tale with the skill and ease of a modern storyteller and humorist. Abramovitsh's artistry lies not in the plot but in the descriptions and ever-shifting narrative voice. Sometimes the narrator (Mendele the Book Peddler) speaks from within the shtetl and sometimes from outside; and often he interweaves the high rhetorical prose of Hershl himself, reborn by the novel's end as Heinrich Cohen."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The events of this novel unfold through the eyes of Hershl, who leaves his small town to become educated only to return to the Pale of Settlement in the wake of the pogroms in 1881. S.Y. Abramovitsh's famed epic novel explores the social upheaval of Russian Jews who are forced by poverty to leave their homes. As he traces the dissolution of the Eastern European shtetl and traditional Jewish life, Abramovitsh narrates a coming-of-age story of a shtetl child with a fresh and inspired perspective. The novel achieved canonical status both in its Yiddish original and in its Hebrew version, but under the title, In the Vale of Tears."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 280 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Wishing-ring.".
- catalog identifier "0815630352".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wishing-ring.".
- catalog isPartOf "Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng yid".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press,".
- catalog relation "Wishing-ring.".
- catalog spatial "Russia History 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog subject "839/.0933 21".
- catalog subject "Jews, Russian Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917 Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "PJ5129.A2 V513 2003".
- catalog title "The wishing-ring : a novel / S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim) ; translated from the Yiddish by Michael Wex.".
- catalog title "Ṿinshfingerl. English".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".