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      Pioneers

      by S.A. An-Sky
      Published
      Mar 2014
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      248
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      When young Zalmen Itzkowitz steps off the train on a dark, dreary day at the close of the nineteenth century, the residents of Miloslavka have no idea what’s in store for them. Zalmen is a freethinker who has come to the rural town to earn his living as a tutor. Yet, rather than teach Hebrew, he plans to teach his students the Russian language and other secular subjects. Residents of the town quickly become divided, with some regarding Itzkowitz as the devil’s messenger and others supportive of his progressive ideas. Set during the time of the Haskalah, the great Jewish Enlightenment that was sweeping through Europe, Pioneers is a charming tale of one ambivalent young man’s attempt to join the movement and a compassionate portrait of one shtetl on the brink of transformation.

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      Apr 2017 Syracuse University Press ISBN13 9780815610847 ISBN10 081561084X
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      Mar 2014 India University Press ISBN13 9780253012128 ISBN10 0253012120
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      First Edition Mar 2014 India University Press ISBN13 9780253012098 ISBN10 0253012090
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