Jewish American Fiction Book Club: The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Jewish American Fiction Book Club: The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
*Wednesday March 13, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Everyone is welcome to join our online (Zoom) book discussion group.

We will be discussing our selection: The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master’s daughter.

Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can’t live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community.

Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

For more information and a Zoom invite, contact Davo Knepler at nuevodavos@yahoo.com.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Sponsored by Gan HaLev-the Jewish Congregation of San Geronimo Valley and the Fairfax Library, and assisted by the Jewish Library of San Francisco