The Kerchief (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Plot: Lyric
- Time of Work: Probably the early twentieth century
- Setting: Galicia (a former province of southern Poland)
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His father, His mother
- Genres: Short fiction, Lyric story
- Subjects: Values, Family or family life, Religion, Jews or Jewish life, Bar Mitzvahs
- Locales: Galicia
The Story
“The Kerchief” is a lyric memory of a pious, naïve childhood in a traditional Jewish household in Galicia. In a series of thirteen episodes, or chapters, requiring from one to a very few paragraphs each, the first-person narrator recalls his relationship with his mother and father, the background of the kerchief, which was a gift from his father to his mother, and the time of his Bar Mitzvah at age thirteen, when he gave away the precious kerchief to a beggar.
The first ten sections of the story focus on the emotional effect on the family of the father's...
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