A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern

This exposition of writer S. Y. Abramovitsh explores the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the nineteenth century.

Foreword

ix

Ken Frieden

Preface

xiii

Preface to the Original Edition

xxi

The Commitment to Yiddish

1

(33)

A Language as Caliban

34

(33)

The Mimic Writer and His ``Little Jew''

67

(28)

On Native Ground

95

(35)

The Mendele Maze (I. The Pseudonym Fallacy)

130

(39)

The Mendele Maze (II. The Folkstip Fallacy)

169

(34)

The Mendele Maze (III. The Outlet)

203

(46)

The Disguised Traveler (Conclusion)

249

(20)

Notes

269

(38)

Selective Bibliography

307

(28)

Index

335

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A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

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