Der Knecht

Isaac Bashevis Singer First published 2007

About this book

In 1648, when the Cossack leader Bogdan Chmielnitski led an uprising against the aristocratic leaders of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jews, caught between the rival armies, were slaughtered or enslaved. For Jacob, a Jew, and Wanda, a Christian, to fall in love in the wake of "The Great Catastrophe" was unthinkable to both their communities.

Subjects

american literature
continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
fiction
fiction, general
fiction, historical, general
fiction, short stories (single author)
jews
jews, fiction
jiddisch
translations into german
yiddish fiction
yiddish literature