Description
Set in seventeenth-century Poland, The Slave tells the story of Jacob, a young Talmudic scholar sold into slavery after the Chmielnicki massacres – and who falls in love with his master’s daughter, Wanda. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can’t live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a wife who is not Jewish, and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.
- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Published: 2021-04
- Pages: 278
- ISBN-13: 9781632922144
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