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The stories of David Bergelson
Yiddish short fiction from Russia
By Bergelson, David & Werman, Golda
- ISBN
- 978-0-81562-712-8
- Publisher
- Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1996.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1996
Innovative Yiddish stylist Bergelson, not widely known to English-language readers, writes of the declining world of small-town Eastern European Jews, capturing the dreariness of the uncommitted life. His characters suffer from despair and depression as a result of the loosening ties of the shtetl (small villag...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
