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portada The Winding Road. My Childhood Years
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
280
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
696x20.3x12.7 cm
ISBN13
9780815612063

The Winding Road. My Childhood Years

Rokhl Feygenberg;Tamara T. Helfer (Author) · Syracuse University Press · Paperback

The Winding Road. My Childhood Years - Rokhl Feygenberg;Tamara T. Helfer

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Synopsis "The Winding Road. My Childhood Years"

Rokhl Feygenberg became one of the youngest authors published in Yiddish when her autobiographical debut novel, The Winding Road, was released serially in 1905. This fictionalized account of her own rough childhood in a small Belarusian shtetl in the 1890s is framed by the deaths of her father when she was five and that of her mother when she was fourteen. Forced to provide and care for her family, the narrator finds escape through books and is inspired by them to invent an alternate fantasy life for herself, transforming the challenges of her everyday into a dreamscape world of city life and romance. In Tamara T. Helfer’s masterful translation, the narrator describes her fictional village of Bulin, deep in wild swampland and forests, far away from the world of books where she finds solace. Readers are enmeshed in the daily rituals of rural Jewish life, following the narrator through her long days of labor and caring for family. Her story, at times very funny, at times full of pathos, is a clear-eyed description of youthful imaginings with three-dimensional, flawed characters, and vivid descriptions of everyday shtetl life. The Winding Road presents an unvarnished portrait of nineteenth-century Jewish life and offers readers a deeper understanding of the vast distance turn-of-the-century women traveled to find a fully realized life.

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