The Bridal Canopy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: The mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: Eastern Galicia and Palestine
- Genres: Long fiction, Folklore, Epic
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Tradition, Nineteenth century, Poverty or poor people, Jews or Jewish life, Storytelling, Israel or Israelis, Middle East, Begging or beggars
- Locales: Palestine, Galicia
Characters Discussed
Reb Yudel Nathanson, a Hasid (member of a Jewish mystical sect) who has devoted his life to the study of the Torah (Jewish sacred literature). An ascetic who has no concern with earthly goods, he wears rags, sleeps on a floor mat, rises early to begin the long day’s study and prayer, and eats only to keep body and soul together. At the beginning of the novel, he leaves his town of Brod in Poland to wander far and wide among Jewish villages to seek a bridegroom for his eldest daughter. As naïve as a child, he is exposed by his journey, for the first time,...
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