Sons and daughters: a novel
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| Grouping Title | sons and daughters |
| Grouping Author | chaim grade |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-08-03 05:12:36AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-08-03 05:17:16AM |
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Kirsch, Adam, 1976-
Waldman, Rose
Waldman, Rose
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Grade, Chaim, 1910-1982
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Kirsch, Adam,1976-writer of introduction.|Writer of introduction
Waldman, Rosetranslator.|Translator
Waldman, Rosetranslator.|Translator
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""It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, 'My enemies are the people in my own home.'" The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of bread dipped in salt. "My greatest enemies are my own family." Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen's world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he's been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi's youngest, Refael'ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the godless Zionists. Originally serialized in the 1960s and 70s, in New York-based Yiddish newspapers, Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters is a precious glimpse of a way of life that is no longer-the rich, Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate. We meet the Katzenellenbogens in the tiny village of Morehdalye, in the 1930s, when gangs of Poles are beginning to boycott Jewish merchants and the modern, secular world is pressing in on the shtetl from all sides. It's this clash, between the freethinking secular life and a life bound by religious duty-and the comforts offered by each-that stands at the center of Sons and Daughters. With characters that rival the homespun philosophers and loveable rouges of Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer-from the brooding Zalia Ziskind, paralyzed by the suffering of others, to the Dostoevskian demon Shabse Shepsel-Grade's masterful novel brims with humanity and with heartbreaking affection for a world, once full of life in all its glorious complexity, that would in just a few years vanish forever"--
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Conflict of generations -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Fiction
Judaism and secularism -- Fiction
Novels
Poland -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
Rabbis -- Fiction
Shtetls -- Poland -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Fiction
Judaism and secularism -- Fiction
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Poland -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
Rabbis -- Fiction
Shtetls -- Poland -- Fiction
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Sons and daughters : a novel
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Sons and daughters : a novel / Chaim Grade ; translated from the Yiddish by Rose Waldman ; introduction by Adam Kirsch
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Sons and daughters
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a novel
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Conflict of generations
History
Jewish families
Judaism and secularism
Rabbis
Shtetls
History
Jewish families
Judaism and secularism
Rabbis
Shtetls
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