Fishke the Lame

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Fishke the Lame is a classic Yiddish novel by Mendele Mocher Sforim that portrays the hardships and social injustices faced by Jewish poor and disabled characters in the shtetl world.

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Fishke der krumer 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Yiddish literature work
novel
associatedWithAuthorPseudonym Mendele Mocher Sforim
associatedWithAuthorRealName Mendele Mocher Sforim
surface form: Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh
author Mendele Mocher Sforim
characterTrait physical disability
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
depicts Jewish poor
disabled characters
shtetl life
social injustice
genre Jewish literature
realist novel
social novel
hasTitleInEnglish Fishke the Lame self-link
hasTitleInTransliteration Fishke the Lame self-linksurface differs
surface form: Fishke der krumer
hasTitleInYiddish פֿישקע דער קרומער
languageVariant Yiddish
surface form: Eastern Yiddish
literaryMovement Haskalah
surface form: Haskalah literature
literarySignificance classic of Yiddish literature
mainCharacter Fishke
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage Yiddish
portrays beggars
itinerant Jewish poor
social outcasts
setting Jewish shtetl
theme Jewish communal life
critique of traditional society
marginalization of the disabled
poverty
social inequality

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Fishke the Lame hasTitleInEnglish Fishke the Lame self-link
Fishke the Lame hasTitleInTransliteration Fishke the Lame self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Fishke der krumer
Mendele Mocher Sforim notableWork Fishke the Lame