The Street (Four Walls Eight Windows): A Yiddish Novel from Between the World Wars - Softcover

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Synopsis

The Street By Israel Rabon. Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf. A novel of poverty and desperation in the tradition of Dostoevski's Notes from Underground. "Bold, disturbing." -the New York Times ISBN: 0-941423-45-X

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About the Author

Born in the Polish village of Govorchov in 1900, the son of a widowed rag peddler, the Yiddish writer Israel Rabon published two novels, The Street (1924) and Balut (1934), as well as two volumes of poetry, Behind the World's Fence (1928) and Lider (1938). In 1941 Rabon was seized by the Nazis and presumably killed.

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ISBN 10:  0805239812 ISBN 13:  9780805239812
Publisher: Schocken Books, 1985
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