Journeys Beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World

Journeys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization. The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current-day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.

Author: Leah V. Garrett
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 02/03/2003
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.02w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780299184445