03220cam a2200553 4500 560946398 TxAuBib 20220618120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780827618763 082761876X B08ZJ43WXJ Amazon 8f6a4ec2-2d13-406c-874a-f4e9ecfb72e1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6425237 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Aleichem, Sholom. Moshkeleh the Thief [Libby] : A Rediscovered Novel. The Jewish Publication Society, 2021. creative writing. Fiction. Twentieth Century Literature. love story. Jewish studies. jewish history. love triangle. Passover. Jewish holiday. literature. Jewish literature. translated literature. yiddish literature. social outcast. horse thief. Creative Works. Russian Pale of Settlement. Edelkeyt. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1914kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Mythology. HTML:This first English translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered novel, <i>Moshkeleh the Thief</i>, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature.<br /> The eponymous hero, Moshkeleh, is a robust chap and horse thief. When Tsireleh, daughter of a tavern keeper, flees to a monastery with the man she loves—a non-Jew she met at the tavern—the humiliated tavern keeper's family turns to Moshkeleh for help, not knowing he too is in love with her.<br /> For some unknown reason, this innovative novel does not appear in the standard twenty-eight-volume edition of Sholom Aleichem's collected works, published after his death. Strikingly, <i>Moshkeleh the Thief</i> shows Jews interacting with non-Jews in the Russian Pale of Settlement—a groundbreaking theme in modern Yiddish literature. This novel is also important for Sholom Aleichem's approach to his material. Yiddish literature had long maintained a tradition of <i>edelkeyt</i>, refinement. Authors eschewed violence, the darker side of life, and people on the fringe of respectability. Moshkeleh thus enters a Jewish arena not hitherto explored in a novel. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-17 20:00:03. Leviant, Curt. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8f6a4ec2-2d13-406c-874a-f4e9ecfb72e1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8f6a4ec2-2d13-406c-874a-f4e9ecfb72e1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8f6a4ec2-2d13-406c-874a-f4e9ecfb72e1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)