The Family Mashber: A Novel by Der Nister - Russian Translation from YiddishThis vast mural of the Ukraine, written in Yiddish 50 years ago and only now published in Russian, traces a year in the fortunes of the Jewish family Mashber, plunged from prosperity to penury as the Polish town that has sustained them falls into ruin. Material collapse is a metaphor for loss of true piety, for ritual observance that ignores the plight of the poor, whose miserable labor has brought wealth to Moshe Mashber. Tragedy strikes with a

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"Through this story about a family experiencing nature in a very Jewish and Chassidic way

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and all the while compels us with its memorable characters

USA 1939 94 minutes B&W

Binding: Hardcover"

where he was brutally tortured as POW

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