Isaac's Torah [electronic resource] : A Novel
Angel Wagenstein2020
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This novel is the saga in five parts of Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld, who grows up in
Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he's a boy, belongs to the
Hapsburg Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, Soviet Russia,
Germany, and then Russia again. Isaac survives the absurdity and horror of
Eastern Europe during the 20th century by pretending to be a fool. If this is an
old Jewish art, then Isaac is a consummate artist. He plays the fool all his
life, from his boyhood in Kolodetz shetl to the time when he is an accused war
criminal in a Gulag in Siberia.
Inseparable from Isaac's life and story are the Yiddish jokes and fables of
Kolodetz. These and the counsel of his dear friend, the rabbi and chair of the
atheist club in Kolodetz, Shmuel Ben David, sustain Isaac through two world
wars, three concentration camps, and five motherlands. The book puts on record,
with full art, what is perhaps the central story of the last one hundred years.
It is a wise book.
Main title:
Isaac's Torah [electronic resource] : A Novel / Angel Wagenstein
Author:
Angel Wagenstein, Author
Imprint:
United States : Other Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) ("320.0;843.0")
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781635421354
Language:
English
BRN:
437902
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