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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
The free-spir-it-ed, 19-year old Tsilke has spent her whole life in the for-est, but what hap-pens when the out-side world, with its strange rules and social oblig-a-tions, begins to encroach on her syl-van idyll? Segalovit-sh's 1922 nov-el-which scan-dal-ized and enter-tained a gen-er-a-tion of Pol-ish-Jew-ish read-ers, and left its mark on the pop-u-lar imag-i-na-tion-cement-ed his posi-tion as one of the most pop-u-lar Yid-dish writ-ers of the inter-war peri-od. "Segalovitsh [...] is unfailingly in dialogue with his own shadow." - Itsik Manger "Packed with emotions." - Rokhl Korn "Incomparable [...] Segalovitsh doesn't write like the rest of us." - Yehoshua Perle
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
The free-spir-it-ed, 19-year old Tsilke has spent her whole life in the for-est, but what hap-pens when the out-side world, with its strange rules and social oblig-a-tions, begins to encroach on her syl-van idyll? Segalovit-sh's 1922 nov-el-which scan-dal-ized and enter-tained a gen-er-a-tion of Pol-ish-Jew-ish read-ers, and left its mark on the pop-u-lar imag-i-na-tion-cement-ed his posi-tion as one of the most pop-u-lar Yid-dish writ-ers of the inter-war peri-od. "Segalovitsh [...] is unfailingly in dialogue with his own shadow." - Itsik Manger "Packed with emotions." - Rokhl Korn "Incomparable [...] Segalovitsh doesn't write like the rest of us." - Yehoshua Perle