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Jacob resembles Ben Dosa in Singer's King of the Fields (1988; see separate entry); both men are Jews living in a gentile and anti-Semitic culture but who are relentlessly pursued by women. Jacob and Ben Dosa fight temptation by considering the possibility that their wives and children may still be alive—if they survived a pogrom; both men are slaves who observe their Jewish beliefs faithfully, abstaining from sex because of their marriage but mostly because their love interests are not Jews. Both women (Wanda and Kosoka) willingly embrace the Jewish faith in order to pursue the...
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