Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Transliteration; Map: The World of Mendele Mocher Sefarim; Introduction; 1: The Five Twice-Told Novels; 2: Mendele and Abramowitz: Anatomy of Self-Caricature; 3: Antisemitism and Jewish Self-Hate in Mendele; 4: Mendele's Realism and the Struggle for Change; 5: Loss and Wandering in Mendele; Conclusion: An Interpretation of the Origins of Bias; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Explores the psychology of prejudice and self-hate in the fiction of Mendele Mocher Sefarim, one of the key figures in modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. The book presents an analysis of the tension between realism and caricature in Mendele's portrayal of the Russian Jews under tsarist rule
