Chaim Grade
1) The Yeshiva
Author
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Pub. Date
©1976-1977
Language
English
Description
The Yeshiva: Masters and Disciples is the second and concluding volume of Chaim Grade's masterwork. Continuing the moving story of Tsemakh Atlas, head of the Yeshiva, Grade re-creates the rich world of his native city Vilna in pre-World War II Lithuania. The now-vanished Eastern European Jewish community was inhabited by the pious and the heretical, the righteous and the sinful, the wise and the foolish. Religion was as crucial to living, and as much...
Author
Language
English
Description
This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer, Chaim Grade, takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems -- the city of Vilna. Centered on Grade's mother, Vella, this is a richly detailed account of the ghetto of his youth, of the lives of the rabbis, the wives, the tradesmen, the peddlers, the scholars.
