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Strauss, Harold | September 17, 1938 issue

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The article presents information on the book " The River Breaks Up," by I.J. Singer and translated from Yiddish by Maurice Samuel. This book is a collection of short stories that rarely allude to historical events, but their chronology can be clearly traced by their indication of gradual disruption of ghetto life of Jews in Europe. The incidents depicted in the stories are symbolic. Throughout the book it is the traditionalist that suffers; the pragmatist that succeeds. The second story of the book is about a magnificent old hypochondriac who has adapted himself to the era of industrial expansion and been swept by it to prosperity.

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RIVER Breaks Up, The (Book); SINGER, I. J.; SHORT stories; JEWS; ETHNIC neighborhoods; PRAGMATISM
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