Journeys beyond the Pale

Download or read online book entitled Journeys beyond the Pale written by Leah V. Garrett and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 15 March 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get best books that you want by click Get Book Button and Read as many books as you like. Book Excerpt : Journeys beyond the Pale is the first book to examine how Yiddish writers, from Mendele Moycher Sforim to Der Nister to the famed Sholem Aleichem, used motifs of travel to express their complicated relationship with modernization. The story of the Jews of the Pale of settlement encompasses current-day Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.