Melnitz
By: Charles Lewinsky ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
Contributors: Whiteside, Shaun
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9781848877665; 9781782394051
Subjects: Families; Jews; Generation; Fiction; Jewish families; Familie; Businessmen; Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) fast (OCoLC)fst00933683; Social conditions; EKA/EDK-Tagung gnd; Juden
Description: 1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands his young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in the bosom of the family, but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks, he will change the Meijer family's lives for generations to come ... In the tradition of the great family romances of the nineteenth century, Melnitz is the saga of the Swiss-Jewish Meijer family, spanning five generations from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II.
Notes: Includes glossary of Yiddish words and expressions.

Translated from the German.