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Author Kulbak, Moshe, 1896-1940, author.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 267 pages).
Series The new Yiddish library
New Yiddish library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
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."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Jewish families -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Fiction.
Jews -- Belarus -- Minsk -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Minsk (Belarus) -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction.
Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Family Life.
Jewish families. (OCoLC)fst00982765
Jews -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00983364
Belarus -- Minsk. (OCoLC)fst01206558
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Chronological Term 1917 - 1936
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Halkin, Hillel, 1939- translator.
Senderovich, Sasha, writer of introduction.
Added Title Zelmenyaner. English
Other Form: Print version: 9780300112320 (DLC) 2012038289 (OCoLC)785864906
ISBN 0300188951 (electronic bk.)
9780300188950 (electronic bk.)
Music No. EB00079394 Recorded Books
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