The Wishing-Ring

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Wishing-Ring, by Mendele Mokher Sfarim. Read by Omri Lernau. This recording is in Hebrew. Mendele Mokher Sfarim (Mendele Book seller, literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the first modern Jewish writers, wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish throughout his career. In his work he described with sharp satirical criticism the traditional life in small Jewish towns, as well as tendencies for assimilation of learned Jews at the time. He was regarded as the "grandfather of Yiddish literature" but the Hebraic-Zionist atmosphere in Odessa influenced him, and in 1886 he turned to writing Hebrew fiction. Being a Jew has never been easy, certainly not in the 19th century Eastern Europe. Mendele Mokher Sefarim wrote with love, and bitterness, about the harsh conditions of Jewish life at the time. The book tells the story of Hershele who leaves the harsh conditions in Russia for Germany, there to become an educated man of the world, but at the same time remaining a committed Jew. The book was first written in Yiddish (Dos Vintshfingerl) and later translated by the author into Hebrew (Emek Ha-Bakha, the vale of tears). (S…

Directors & creators

Mendele Mokher Sfarim

Subjects

מנדלה מוכר ספרים; שלום יעקב אברמוביץ; בעמק הבכא; Abramovich; Sefarim; Sforim; Hebrew; literature; Librivox; audiobook

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