Title: Der Knecht
First published: January 1, 2007
Description: In 1648, when the Cossack leader Bogdan Chmielnitski led an uprising against the aristocratic leaders of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jews, caught between the rival armies, were slaughtered or enslaved. For Jacob, a Jew, and Wanda, a Christian, to fall in love in the wake of "The Great Catastrophe" was unthinkable to both their communities.
Subjects: Yiddish literature, Fiction, Jews, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Jiddisch, Yiddish fiction, Fiction, general, American literature, Fiction, historical, general, Jews, fiction, Translations into German
Places: Poland
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: PJ5129.S515 K5, PJ5129.S49 K58