Judaic Traditions in LIterature, Music, and Art
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The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination
by Dan Miron
Published 1 December 2000
This volume - a sequel to the author's A traveler disguised - further develops the analysis of the fictionality and aesthetic autonomy of the classics of Yiddish fiction. The essays in this work concentrate on the artistic reconstruction of the world.
In an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century.