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Realism, Caricature, and Bias - The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim (Paperback)
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Realism, Caricature, and Bias - The Fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim (Paperback)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Mendele Mocher Sefarim's seven novels constitute the most important
and influential body of work in modern Jewish prose fiction written
prior to the First World War. These novels-five of which he wrote
twice, once in Yiddish and once in Hebrew-are devastating satiric
portraits of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Russia. They are
permeated by Mendele's passion for social change, and an often
equally passionate contempt for his own people for failing to
achieve it. David Aberbach, exploring these passions in terms of
the psychology of prejudice and self-hate, provides the first
full-length analysis of the tension between realism and caricature
in Mendele's descriptions of his fellow-Jew. At the same time, his
analysis conveys Mendele's fascinating social and psychological
insights into the forces which led to the mass emigration of Jews
from Russia before the First World War, to the rise of Zionism, and
to Jewish involvement in the socialist and revolutionary movements
in Russia at the turn of the century. The picture is broadened
through references to contemporary Russian literature so as to
portray these forces in the context of Russian society at the time.
Aberbach's skilful presentation allows the reader to gain access to
Mendele's works through many tantalizing excerpts, with some of the
key passages provided in Hebrew and Yiddish as well as in
Aberbach's lively translation. He also makes available the
considerable body of Mendele scholarship that has been published in
Hebrew in recent years. From this fascinating and lucid work,
scholars and general readers alike will gain a new understanding
not only of the social realities of Jewish life in tsarist Russia
but also of how the self-image of an ethnic minority may be
affected and even determined by the character and social problems
of the majority culture.
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