The Frozen Rabbi download book

Book: The Frozen Rabbi

Author: Steve Stern

Pages: 384

Format: pdf,html,rtf,epub,lit,lrf,mobi

Language: English

ISBN10: 156512619X

Perhaps another reviewer who is a better writer can adequately describe the language of the book. There's a lot of Yiddish, only haphazardly defined. I remember bits and pieces from my childhood and the rest, either context would make sense of or I just passed it on by on my way to the next sentence. And as for the English--I don't usually need a dictionary, but I did for The Frozen Rabbi. It's a personal choice if a reader wants to whip through the pages of a 10-pound dictionary and then come up without the word being there! The erudition of Mr. Stern.
Cynthia Ozick who wrote the brilliant Puttermesser Papers and knows about flying souls and magical disturbances, says that Stern is our contemporary Isaac Bashevis Singer. And Singer was the heir to the Yiddish folklorist tradition that preceded him by hundreds of years. Give a look The Frozen Rabbi, disappointed you won't be.