The slave

Description:

In 1648, when the Cossack leader Bogdan Chmielnitski led an uprising against the aristocratic leaders of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jews, caught between the rival armies, were slaughtered or enslaved. For Jacob, a Jew, and Wanda, a Christian, to fall in love in the wake of "The Great Catastrophe" was unthinkable to both their communities.

subjects: Yiddish literature,  Fiction,  Jews,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Jiddisch,  Yiddish fiction,  Fiction, general,  American literature,  Fiction, historical, general,  Jews, fiction,  Translations into German

Places: Poland

Times: 17th century