The Winding Road
my childhood years
$66.72
- Paperback
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
The Winding Road: A Shtetl Story
Rokhl Feygenberg’s autobiographical novel, The Winding Road, first published in 1905, tells a poignant story of a young girl’s resilience in a 1890s Belarusian shtetl. Orphaned at a young age, the narrator faces hardship and familial responsibility.
Set in the fictional village of Bulin, deep in the swamps and forests, the story details the daily rituals of rural Jewish life. Through Tamara T. Helfer’s translation, readers experience…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780815612063 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0815612060 |
| Series: | Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art |
| Author: | Rokhl Feygenberg, Tamara T. Helfer |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
| Imprint: | Syracuse University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 13g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm x 6960mm |
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Critics Review
“An against-all-odds tale of a girl who acquires education in a society that doesn’t value her for her mind, and who finds ways to imagine hope in circumstances of despair.” —Jessica Kirzane, translator of Diary of a Lonely Girl
“The novel conveys the complexity of shtetl life with all its religious and folk traditions, personalities, class divisions, pettiness, and generosity.” —Rachel Mines, translator of A Plague of Cholera and Other Stories
About The Author
Rokhl Feygenberg
Rokhl Feygenberg (1885–1972) was born in the shtetl of Lyuban, Minsk Guberniya. Orphaned at fifteen, she lived in various cities throughout Europe and Israel before settling permanently in Tel Aviv in 1933. Among the earliest women professional authors published in the Yiddish press, Feygenberg went on to write novels, plays, essays, and a significant body of journalism in Yiddish and Hebrew. Feygenberg’s 1926 book about the Dubova pogroms was instrumental in the defense and acquittal of Shalom Schwarzbard.
Tamara T. Helfer was a 2023 Yiddish Book Center Translation Fellow. She is a former research astronomer, science educator, and program developer with broad interests in the intersection of history, genealogy, and storytelling.
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