The Street: A Yiddish Novel from Between the World Wars

"The Street offers an unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of Fiddler on the Roof or the mythopoeic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer's fictions. . . . Rabon speaks to us today with immediacy and power, in this memorable novel about a vanished world quite like our own."—New York Newsday

A master novelist of city life, Israel Rabon describes in The Street that peculiar moment in recent history—Eastern Europe between world wars. Day to...