From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories - Paperback
by Fradl Shtok
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Availability:In StockContributor:Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter (Translator), Jordan D. Finkin (Translator)Publish date:11/15/2021Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810144392ISBN-10:810144395UPC:9780810144392Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Jewish, Urban & Street LitSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCNDH3TADZ
From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories
Winner, 2022 MLA Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies From the Jewish Provinces showcases a brilliant and nearly forgotten voice in Yiddish letters. An insistently original writer whose abrupt departure from the literary scene is the stuff of legend, Fradl Shtok composed stories that describe the travails of young women looking for love and desire in a world that spurns...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810144392ISBN-10:810144395UPC:9780810144392Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Jewish, Urban & Street LitSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCNDH3TADZ
FRADL SHTOK (1890-1990?) was born in Galicia, near the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. She emigrated to New York at around the age of seventeen, quickly making a name for herself as an up-and-coming poet, highly regarded and widely anthologized. She published a collection of short stories, written in Yiddish, in 1919, and a novel, written in English, in 1927. By the 1930s...
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter (Translator), Jordan D. Finkin (Translator)
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