{"product_id":"the-street-paperback","title":"The Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsrael Rabon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLeonard Wolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Street\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of \u003ci\u003eFiddler on the Roof \u003c\/i\u003eor the mythopoeic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer's fictions. . . . Rabon speaks to us today with immediacy and power, in this memorable novel about a vanished world quite like our own.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA master novelist of city life, Israel Rabon describes in \u003ci\u003eThe Street \u003c\/i\u003ethat peculiar moment in recent history--Eastern Europe between world wars. Day to day reality had shattered into pieces, yet people still seemed empowered with an unearthly optimism. His characters include a tubercular clown, a suicidal poet and his handsome young wife, a circus wrestler, and an ex-soldier who finds employment reading aloud the titles at a movie theatre for an illiterate audience. The eerie power of this book lies in its unerringly accurate depiction of human frailty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the Polish village of Govorchov in 1900, the son of a widowed rag peddler, the Yiddish writer \u003cb\u003eIsrael Rabon\u003c\/b\u003e published two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Street \u003c\/i\u003e(1924) and \u003ci\u003eBalut \u003c\/i\u003e(1934), as well as two volumes of poetry, \u003ci\u003eBehind the World's Fence\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and \u003ci\u003eLider \u003c\/i\u003e(1938). In 1941 Rabon was seized by the Nazis and presumably killed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.54 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759210168608,"sku":"9780941423458","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1de4ddc7d7f787eecf89cd3b0b3ddcf0.webp?v=1780145560","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-street-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}