Description: Studies of Eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser shows how writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish during much of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century were in intense conversation with one another. The marketplace was both the literal locale at which members of these different societies and cultures interacted with one another and a rich subject for representation in their art.
Review Quotes: "Glaser shows that the leading literatures of the Pale--Yiddish, Russian, and Ukrainian --fully reflected ... a [shared] fascination with the fair as a dynamic and picturesque manifestation of people's lives." --Jewish Quarterly