YOSHE KALB (Schocken classics)
by Israel Joshua Singer
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Author: Israel Joshua SingerTranslator: Maurice Samuel
Introduction: Irving Howe
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Yiddish (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-03-12
ISBN: 0805208607
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Schocken Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a welcome counterpoint to the Buber portrayal of Chasidim as saints or the Sholem Aleichem "Fiddler on the Roof" portrayal of European Jewry as a beautiful dead culture. In Yoshe Kalb, you run into the kind of corrupt Chasidim that you're sadly more likely to run into today. It's a brilliant portrayal of the often corrupt world of Chasidic dynasties where the leader knows little to nothing, the gabbai fights with the community and the women are stuck gossipping.Nahum marries into an Hasidic dynasty due to the dynastic leader's eagerness to get married. A sensitive soul, he withdraws from the community except for an overwhelming lust that he feels for the chief rabbi's wife. Inadvertantly he sets in motion a chain of events that will destroy two dynasties and ends in one of the strangest trials in literature.
If you have only read Isaac Bashevis Singer, I urge you to seek out Israel Singer whereever you can find him.
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