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This is the first complete English-language translation of any basic of Yiddish literature, one of the fantastic comic novels of the 20th century. The Zelmenyaners details the travails of any Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet truth. Four generations are depicted in riveting and frequently uproarious detail as they face the serious changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet program and its collectivist, radical secularism. The resultant intergenerational showdowns - including disputes on the introduction of electricity, radio, or electric trolley - are rendered with laughter, pathos, and a finely managed satiric pen. Moyshe Kulbak, a modern day of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, accumulates where Sholem Aleichem kept off a technology before, discovering in this publication the change of Jewish life.
