
Foiglman
Zvi Arbel is an Israeli historian whose field is Jewish history. His chosen topic of research is the Petliura massacres of Ukrainian Jews in 1918-1920. Arbel's work is read by the poet Shmuel Foiglman, a Holocaust survivor who sends Arbel a volume of his own poetry in Yiddish. The relationship that develops between the two men is one of ambivalence and fascination; the reserved Israeli historian i...
Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Toby Pr; 1st English Language Ed edition (September 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781592640324
ISBN-13: 978-1592640324
ASIN: 159264032X
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 3609413
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“Aharon Megged’s Foiglman takes a long look back at the debates between the Hebraists and Yiddishists from the early days of the twentieth century, in the novel and character of Foiglman. Am aging Yiddish poet and Holocaust survivor, Megged uses Foig...”
alternatively affectionate and resentful towards the enthusiastic but tormented poet. Despite his ambivalence, Arbel is manipulated into helping Foiglman. He embarks on an effort to get Foiglman's poetry translated into Hebrew, and as Foiglman begins to monopolize more and more of his time and resources, Arbel ignores all the warning signs of the effect this is having on his marriage; his wife Nora cannot be dissuaded from her feelings of revulsion towards Foiglman. As the poet unintentionally drives a wedge between them, Arbel and Nora's long and contented marriage goes sour, and in Megged's blend of past and present, lust and nostalgia - tragedy becomes the only way out.
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