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The Landsmen (Lost American fiction) by Peter Martin; afterword by Wallace Markfield is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Landsmen (Lost American fiction) about?
<p><i>The Landsmen </i>is a novel of Jewish-American roots. Set in the village of Golinsk in Czarist Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, it evokes life under a system of massively cruel anti-Semitism. The word "landsmen" in Yiddish means people from the same place, but in this novel it conveys the larger meaning of "brothers"--in suffering, in faith, in humanity.</p><p>Peter Martin wrote the novel from the memories of the old people he knew as a boy in Brooklyn. The result is a work of
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Peter Martin; afterword by Wallace Markfield
- Publisher
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809308378
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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