Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-sky Discount let alone Yiddish

let alone Yiddish

tapping into the enduring Jewish values of resourcefulness and seasonality

and Menachem Mendl--"shtetl Jews" for whom humor and pathos were two sides of the same Yiddish coin--remain invaluable windows into pre-war Eastern European Jewish life

while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature

finds himself ever more caught up in worldly affairs

Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-sky Discount let alone YiddishTranslated by Michael R. Katz S. A. An sky's novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young people in late Tsarist Russia as they strive to throw off their traditional religious upbringing to adopt a secular and modern identity. The action unfolds in the town of M. in the Pale of Settlement, where an engaging cast of characters wrestles with cultural and social issues. Their exploits culminate in helping a young Jewish woman evade an arranged marriage