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 · The travels and adventures of Benjamin the Third / Mendele Mocher Seforim ; [translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel]. Publication | Library Call Number: PJA2 K A satire of two small-town innocents who wander out into the wide world, invariably coming to grief, yet maintaining the nobility of innocence. Uniform Title. His work consists mostly of stories and plays. Among his novels, "Fiske the lame" (Fiske der kroumer, ) and "The Travels of Benjamin III" (Masa'ot Binyamin ha-chelichi) are considered masterpieces. The pseudonym Mendele Moykher Sforim that S. Y. Abramovich chooses as pen name is also that of one of his central characters who plays as narrator. Buy a cheap copy of Kitsur massous Binyomin hashlishi book by Mendele Moykher-Sforim. The innocent and idealistic Benjamin and his hardheaded friend Senderel have humorous escapades as they search for the legendary Ten Tribes. Free Shipping on all orders over $

Take Mendele Moykher-Sforim's The Travels of Benjamin III(), the mock adventure of a small-town Jew who sets out with his sidekick, Senderl "the housewife," to find the ten lost tribes of Israel but loses his way the minute he leaves town and ends up forcibly conscripted into the tsarist army. The Modern Jewish Canon is Ruth R. Wisse's attempt to establish a set of criteria for a canon of Jewish literature (mainly prose fiction written by Ashkenazi Jews and their descendants in the 20th century). This is a fascinating, odd, and ambitious book, whose big ideas are ultimately less interesting than its small observations. Mendele Moykher Sforim, The Little Man, The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost (Les Disparus) ( Prix Médicis étranger) Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse ( Prix Médicis étranger), Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer ( Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).

His greatest work, Kitsur massous Binyomin hashlishi (; The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third), is a kind of Jewish Don Quixote. After living from to in Zhitomir (where he was trained as a rabbi), he became head of a traditional school for boys (Talmud Torah) at Odessa and was the leading personality (known as “Grandfather Mendele”) of the emerging literary movement. The novella mimics the structure, plot, and characters of Don Quixote. However, The Travels of Benjamin the Third pushes themes from Don Quixote to satiric extremes. For example, in The Travels everyone is as mad as the Jewish Don Quixote, Benjamin, and the relationship between him and Sancho Panza (Sendrel) is an homosexual marriage. Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (–) created Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Mendele the Book Peddler), a name that has often been understood as a pseudonym rather than a character in his works. Writing in both Hebrew and Yiddish, and translating his works from one to the other, he is considered to be the first modern novelist in both languages and.