Leah Napolin, Isaac Bashevis Singer
A rabbi's daughter in 19th century Poland has studied the Torah and refuses to play the hausfrau role traditionally allotted to Jewish women. When her father dies, she disguises herself as a man and flees to another town where she continues her studies and becomes involved in an unusual romantic triangle.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903 - 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American author of short stories, novels, essays, cultural criticism, memoirs, plays and stories for children. In a career spanning nearly seven decades, he wrote in Yiddish and translated his work into English wit ...
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