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5.0 out of 5 stars
A novel of heart-rending emotion and clashing temperaments,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leib Weihnachtskuchen And His Child (Paperback)
Fluently translated into English by Michael Mitchell, Leib Weihnachtskuchen And His Child is the story of a tragic attraction between a Janko, a Gentile struggling with a heavy mortgage owed to three local moneylenders, and Miriam, the daughter of the impoverished Jewish innkeeper Leib. Though Janko originally loathes the innkeeper, he comes to learn that the Jew is not the vampiric miser he imagined, and as the throes of love overtake him, he vows "one bed or one grave" for himself and Miriam. Yet Leib and his wife hope to provide for their daughter by marrying her to and old Jew with money and property. A novel of heart-rending emotion and clashing temperaments, set in Podolia, now part of the Ukraine, during the nineteenth century.
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Leib Weihnachtskuchen And His Child by Karl Emil Franzos (Paperback - May 31, 2005)
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