Shosha (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: Novel
- Setting: Warsaw, Poland, and Tel Aviv, Israel
- Principal Characters: Aaron Greidinger, Morris Feitelzohn, Dora Stolnitz, Celia Chentshiner, Haiml Chentshiner, Betty Slonim, Sam Dreiman, Tekla, Shosha Schui Diener
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, World War I, Drama or dramatists, Life, philosophy of, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Poland or Polish people, Judaism, Clubs, social, Rabbis
- Locales: Tel Aviv, Israel, Warsaw, Poland
The Novel
The year is 1914. Aaron Greidinger, the seven-year-old son of a rabbi, lives in an apartment at number ten Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. Across the hall live Bashele and Zelig Schuldiener and their nine-year-old daughter, Shosha. Although Aaron is a prodigy of learning and Shosha is intellectually backward, he finds her attractive, and the Schuldieners’ apartment, as lavishly furnished as his own is sparse, becomes his second home.
This youthful idyll soon ends when the Schuldieners move to number seven Krochmalna Street, two blocks away. Under constant...
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