Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: Fishke the Lame / Benjamin the Third
by Mendele Mocher Sforim
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Two novellas by the founder of modern Yiddish fiction--Fishke the Lame and The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third--depict small-town Jewish life in Russia.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: Fishke the Lame / Benjamin the Third
- Original title
- Fishke der krumer
- Original publication date
- Fishke the Lame (1869) (1869)
- People/Characters
- Mendele the Book Peddler; Fishke the Lame; Benjamin the Third
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)May God bring him safely home again so that I may publish the tidings of his second journey for all the tribes of Israel to read
- Blurbers
- Nimoy, Leonard; Bellow, Saul
- Original language
- Yiddish
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.0933 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures - Yiddish Fiction 1860-
- LCC
- PJ5129 .A2 .F513 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Other languages used by Jews Yiddish
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- Languages
- English, German
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- ISBNs
- 4
