Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-sky Discount and religious persecution

and religious persecution

Edition of the New Yiddish Library Series

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Pioneers: A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s by S. A. An-sky Discount and religious persecutionTranslated 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