King of Yiddish
By: Curt Leviant
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Livingston, Alabama]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781604891614; 9781604891607
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Jewish college teachers; Fiction; Pogroms; Jewish fiction
Description: "A serio-comic novel, King of Yiddish immerses the reader into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting life narratives plague Gafni: his extended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who mudered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom, 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? "-- p.[4] of the cover.