The Slave (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions) by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Slave (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Isaac Bashevis Singer
280 pages
Goodreads Press
Feb 2021
Hardcover
All Fiction WSBN
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Set in 17th century Poland, The Slave tells the story of Jacob, a young Talmudic scholar sold into slavery after the Chmielnicki massacres - and who falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a wife who is not Jewish, and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

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