The Landsmen
Peter Martin
The Landsmen is a novel of Jewish-American roots. Set in the village of Golinsk in Czarist Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, it evokes life under a system of massively cruel anti-Semitism. The word "landsmen" in Yiddish means people from the same place, but in this novel it conveys the larger meaning of "brothers"-in suffering, in faith, in humanity.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- ISBN-13
- 9780445043381
- Genre
- Topics
- Jewish-American heritageAnti-SemitismImmigration and survival
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1953)
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