Of Lodz and Love

Sholem Aleichem romanticized shtetl life. Isaac Bashevis Singer eroticized it. In the novel Bociany and its sequel, Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb brings a vanished world to vibrant, compelling life. Rosenfarb follows the destinies of characters from the Polish town of Bociany as they grow up, grow old, and leave the shtetl for the city.

About the author

Chava Rosenfarb was born in Lódz, Poland. She was a survivor of the Lódz Ghetto as well as the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. She was the recipient of numerous literary prizes. In 1979, she was awarded the Manger Prize--the highest award for Yiddish literature--for her trilogy Tree of Life (Der boim fun leib).

Product details

• Authors: Chava Rosenfarb
• Assisted by: Chava Rosenfarb (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780815605775
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0577-5
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Library of Modern Jewish Liter
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature