Kitser masoes Binyumen hashlishi
novel by Abramovitsh
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Yiddish literature
- In Yiddish literature: The classic writers
Kitser masoes Binyomen hashlishi (1878; “The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third”) is Abramovitsh’s parody of Cervantes’s Don Quixote. In place of a Spanish gentleman who longs to be a heroic knight is a mock-heroic Jew who longs for adventure. His quest for the Holy…
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