King of Yiddish /
A serio-comic novel, King of Yiddish immerses the reader into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting life natrratives plague Gafni, his etended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who mudered his farther in the notorious Kielce program, and Gafni's infat...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Livingston, Alabama :
Livingston Press, the University of West Alabama,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A serio-comic novel, King of Yiddish immerses the reader into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting life natrratives plague Gafni, his etended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who mudered his farther in the notorious Kielce program, and Gafni's infatuation with Malina, a beauteous non-Jewish Polish linguist in Jerusalem to study Yiddish. Guess who her private tutor is? Rumors fly. Will synchronicity also fly? |
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| Physical Description: | 305 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781604891614 1604891610 1604891602 (trade paper) 9781604891607 (trade paper) |