num_pages: 240
description: Journeys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization.  The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current-day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. 
language: English
title: Journeys beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
titlecomplete: Journeys beyond the Pale: Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press