The Nag

From the "grandfather" of Yiddish literature, a novel featuring his classic character & alter-ego Mendele the bookseller. The Nag is a "pungent satire dealing with the adventures of Isrulik the impoverished scholar and a a battered workhorse symbolizing the Jewish people, a creature on whose back every scoundrel mounts but whose spirit cannot be crushed, this novel is a rousing tale, touched with beauty but revealing in its portrayal of the sordid conditions under which so many Eastern European Jews lived."