The Zelmenyaners: a family saga

by Kulbak, Moshe

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Title Statements

Full title :The Zelmenyaners : a family saga / Moyshe Kulbak ; translated by Hillel Halkin ; introduction and notes by Sasha Senderovich

Summary

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism. The resultant intergenerational showdowns'including disputes over the introduction of electricity, radio, or electric trolley'are rendered with humor, pathos, and a finely controlled satiric pen. Moyshe Kulbak, a contemporary of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, picks up where Sholem Aleichem left off a generation before, exploring in this book the transformation of Jewish life.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 267 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300112320, 0300112327, 9780300188950, 0300188951
oclc:ocn881842942
LC Classification:PJ5129.K77
Dewey Decimal:839/.133

Subjects

Belarus -- Minsk Familles juives -- Romans, nouvelles, e… Fiction History Jewish families Jewish families -- Fiction. -- Belarus Jews Jews -- Fiction -- Social life and cust… Juifs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -- Mœu… Minsk (Belarus) -- Fiction Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Fiction