Errors of Youth and Way of Return: Two Novels

This translation of M.L. Lilienblum's Errors of Youth (1876) and its short sequel, Way of Return (1899), bridges a critical gap in modern Hebrew literature and Jewish intellectual history, and, for the first time, makes the entirety of these seminal texts available in English. Framed as autobiography, but written with fictionalized flair and keen irony, Errors of Youth follows the travails of its hapless, self-centered narrator from traditional Jewish upbringing to modern life in Odessa. Un...