Descent

Informationen zum Autor Among Yiddish prose writers of the early twentieth century, Dovid Bergelson (1884-1952) was a unique modernist voice. Born in Russia, he lived and traveled in Europe and the United States, but he finally moved to Moscow: in a world of conflicting ideologies and political unrest, he threw his lot in with Communism and the Soviet Union. He was executed in a post-World War II Stalinist purge of Jews. Joseph Sherman was a scholar of Yiddish literature. His publications include The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 333: Writers in Yiddish . Klappentext Bergelson's 1920 novella centers on the mystery of the suicide of a young pharmacist in Rakitne! a provincial town. Zusammenfassung Bergelson’s 1920 novella describes the complex Jewish life of Russia and Ukraine through the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917.

Product details

• Authors: David Bergelson, Dovid Bergelson, Dovid/ Sherman Bergelson
• Assisted by: Joseph Sherman (Translation)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780873527880
• ISBN: 978-0-87352-788-0
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Texts and Translations; MLA Texts and Translations
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature