Job (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Roth
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: c. 1885-1920
- Setting: Zuchnow, the Ukraine, and New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Parable
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, Death or dying, Faith, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Military life or service, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: New York, NY, Ukraine, Zuchnow
Characters Discussed
Mendel Singer, a children’s teacher of Hebrew and the Bible. Thirty years old at the beginning of the novel, he is “pious, God-fearing, and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew.” When he learns that his fourth child, Menuchim, is physically and mentally retarded, he accepts this as the will of God. When he later finds his daughter Miriam with a Cossack, he fears shame to the family and immigrates with her and his wife to America. Years later, he still dreams longingly of Menuchim, left behind in Russia. Already aged and bent in his early sixties, he...
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