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Dear Librarians NEW TILE FROM GEFEN PUBLISHING HOUSE: Strange Ways; of fremde Vegn Rokhl Faygenberg ISBN: 978-9652293879 Format: Hardback 192 pages Publish date: August 2007 Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Price: $29.95 http://www.israelbooks.com/bookDetails.asp?book=625 Subscribe the Gefen email newsletter and quarterly catalog for librarians. http://tinyurl.com/fydrh DESCRIPTION: Vividly set in a Polish shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century, this surprisingly modern story deals with an illicit love affair between a handsome and successful married man and a beautiful and sensitive career woman who entertains her many male friends in her literary salon. Affected by the arrival of the railroad, the shtetl residents begin to adopt the strange ways of a new generation who do not live as their parents and grandparents did before them. Sheyndel, the heroine, and Borukh, her lover, are universal types; but they have been fleshed out by the author into such real and believable people that we easily identify with them. The delicately etched love story with its many unexpected twists and turns is rendered in a fluid translation, making for gripping reading. ABOUT THE AUTHOR The publication of Rokhl Faygenberg's full-length novel Strange Ways in Warsaw in 1925 was an exceptional event in Yiddish literature. Women wrote short works of fiction, mainly poems and short stories. They were not encouraged to write longer works and rarely had the necessary backing. But Faygenberg, who spent most of her professional life in the field of publication, persisted. Besides Strange Ways she was successful in publishing the novels Childhood Years (1909), A Mother (1911), A Two Year Marriage (1932) and The World Wants Us to Be Jews (1936), all in Warsaw, and a four act play, Derelicts, produced in Vilna in 1927. Always restless, she lived at various times in the Ukraine, Lausanne, Kishinev, Bucharest and Paris, finally settling in Israel permanently in 1933 where she founded the publishing house Maasaf, which specialized in Hebrew translations of Yiddish classics. Of her many publications only Strange Ways has been translated into English thus far. See what else is new at Gefen's Website http://tinyurl.com/yv4tba Send purchase orders for this and other Gefen Publishing House titles: By email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By fax: 516-295-2739 To place special orders for books of other Israeli publishers send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Special Orders and Marketing Gefen Publishing House Hatzvi 6, Jerusalem, 94386, Israel tel: 972 2 538 0247 ext. 2 fax: 972 2 538 8423 www.israelbooks.com Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
