Ghetto, Shtetl, or Polis? the Jewish Community in the Writings of Karl Emil Franzos, Sholom Aleichem, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon

by Miriam Roshwald

Overview

The late Miriam Roshwald here examines the role of the nineteenth-century ghetto or shtetl through the eyes of three contemporaneous Jewish writers: Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), Sholom Aleichem (aka Sholom Rabinovitz, 1859-1916), and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (aka Samuel Josef Czaczkes, 1888-1970).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893702458
Publisher:	Borgo Press
Publication date:	09/30/2007
Series:	Borgo Reference Library , #4
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)