Article: Bociany.(Review) (book review)

Bociany, by Chava Rosenfarb. Of Lodz and Love, by Chava Rosenfarb. Both translated from the Yiddish by the author. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000, each 352 pp.; each $29.95. Part of Syracuse University's series: The Library of Modern Jewish Literature.

Bociany and its sequel, Of Love and Lodz, trace the lives of Binele and Yacov from the shtetl in which they were raised to the city of Lodz, to which they both migrate as young adults. Although the novels are fictional, their reconstruction of Jewish life in that period is vividly authentic. Winners of the Manger Prize for Yiddish literature in 1979, both books were translated into English by the ...

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