7 September 1999
September 1999
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Transcript
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Sept 13 - Oct 8
The Slave
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translated from the Yiddish by Cecil Hemley and the author.
read by Don Barker
Set in seventeenth century Poland, Jacob is the Jewish slave of Jan Bzik, a poor farmer in a mountain village. Wanda, the daughter of Jan Bzik, falls in love with Jacob. Though he is at first deeply unwilling to betray his religion, Jacob finally gives in to Wanda's advances and begins a love affair with her that leads to great danger, passion and adventure for them both.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in 1904 in Poland, the son of a Hasidic rabbi. He worked as a village teacher and a proofreader and translator in Warsaw before he emigrated to the US in 1935 to escape anti-semitism. His writing began to be widely acknowledged in the 1960s when it was translated into English. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for stories which were universal though deeply rooted in Polish-Jewish culture.
Producer/director: Mike Ladd
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