A Guest for the Night (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical
- Time of Work: The 1900’s and 1910’s
- Setting: Eastern Galicia and Palestine
- Genres: Long fiction, Folklore, Epic
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Tradition, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Poverty or poor people, Jews or Jewish life, Storytelling, Middle East, Begging or beggars
- Locales: Palestine, Galicia
Characters Discussed
The Guest, the narrator of the story, a forty-year-old writer. He returns to the town of his birth, after the destruction of his home in Israel, in an effort to put together the fragmented pieces of his life and his religious faith. He finds the town ruined by continuous pogroms that have caused many to flee and by extreme poverty among those who remained. He undertakes the responsibility of heading the Beit Midrash (the house of study) and finds in that self-imposed duty a reconnection with the Almighty and joy in life. He is both generous and stingy,...
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