Aharon Megged’s Foiglman
takes a long look back at the debates between the Hebraists and Yiddishists
from the early days of the twentieth century, in the novel and character
of Foiglman. Am agingYiddish poet and
Holocaust survivor, Megged uses Foiglman’s particular dilemma of a poet writing in a
dying language to highlight the drama of the wrenching internal change in Jewish
identity in modern times.
This is also a novel about people meeting and
seemingly connecting on some deeper level, but actually not. It is a sad commentary on the loneliness of
the human experience. Abiding connections
are difficult. And all relationships
have dark, ulterior motives. Sadness creeps around every corner.
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