Enemies (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The postwar 1940’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Herman Broder, Yadwiga, Milton Lampert, Tamar Rachel Broder (Tamara), Masha Tortshiner, Shifrah Puah Bloch
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Suicide, New York City, Marriage, 1940’s, World War II, Polygamy or bigamy, Jews or Jewish life, Holocaust, Jewish, Judaism
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novel
The only child of Reb Shmuel Leib Broder of Tzivkev, Herman studies philosophy in Warsaw. There he meets the daughter of the rich Reb Shachnah Luria, Tamara, who is studying at the Wszchnica. Despite their parents’ objections, the two marry, but they quickly begin quarreling and are separated, about to be divorced, when World War II breaks out.
During the war, Yadwiga, a Polish peasant who had worked as a maid for the Broders, hides Herman in a hayloft. At the war’s end in 1945, he learns from eyewitnesses that Tamara and their two children have been...
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