Laish
By: Aharon Appelfeld ; translated from the Hebrew by Aloma Halter.
Contributors: Halter, Aloma.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780805241594
Work titles: Layish.
Description: A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go, they are all on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the journey is filled with unexpected detours and unanticipated disaster.