Research Catalog

Title

The slaughterman's daughter : a novel / Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf.

Author

Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975-

Publication

New York : Schocken Books, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Scharf, Orr

Description

515 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"An enthralling, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late nineteenth-century Russia, filled with "boundless imagination, wit, and panache" (David Grossman), and enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Cohen brothers. With her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild beast, Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl-certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose "philosopher" of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children in a small village in Russia's Pale of Settlement. As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward the profession of her father, Grodno's ritual slaughterer, who reluctantly took her under his wing and trained her to be a master shochet-incredibly skilled with a knife. It's a knife that Fanny keeps tied to her right leg even now, as a married woman, cheese farmer, and mother of five, long after she's given up that unsuitable profession. Horrified by her brother-in-law's actions and heedless of the dangers facing a Jewish woman travelling alone in Czarist Russia, Fanny decides that enough is enough and sets off to track down Zvi-Meir and bring him home-with the help of the mute and mysterious ferryman, Zizek Breshov, an ex-soldier with his own sensational past. In irresistible prose, Israeli novelist Yaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that soon pits the Czar's army against the Russian secret police and threatens the foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughterman's Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction"--

Uniform Title

Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot. English

Alternative Title

Tiḳun aḥar ḥatsot.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Sisters > Fiction
• Shehitah > Fiction
• Runaway husbands > Fiction
• Abandoned wives > Fiction
• Jewish women > Russia > Fiction
• Jewish families > Russia > Fiction
• Runaway husbands
• Shehitah
• Sisters
• Russia > 19th century > Fiction
• Russia

Genre/Form

• Jewish fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• Fiction.

Note

• "A novel"--Dust jacket.
• Originally published in Israel as תיקון אחר חצות by Keter Books Jerusalem, in 2015. First published in Great Britain in 2020 by MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus.

Source (note)

• of Janice Quint;

Call Number

JFE 22-3363

ISBN

• 9780805243659
• 0805243658

LCCN

2020010016

OCLC

1145078987

Author

Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- author.

Title

The slaughterman's daughter : a novel / Yaniv Iczkovits ; translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf.

Publisher

New York : Schocken Books, [2020]

Edition

First United States edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Source

Gift; of Janice Quint; 2022.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Scharf, Orr, translator.

Quint, Janice, donor.

Other Form:

Online version: Iczkovits, Yaniv, 1975- The slaughterman's daughter New York : Schocken Books, [2020] 9780805243666 (DLC) 2020010017

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3363