Shosha

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Shosha is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that portrays a doomed love story set against the backdrop of pre–World War II Jewish Warsaw.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Isaac Bashevis Singer NERFINISHED
authorLanguage Yiddish
authorNationality Polish-American
authorNobelYear 1978
authorReceived Nobel Prize in Literature
countryOfOrigin United States
depictsCommunity Jewish community of Warsaw
depictsEvent approach of World War II
rise of Nazism
genre Jewish literature
historical fiction
novel
hasAwardConnection author is Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
hasCharacter Aaron Greidinger
Shosha
hasFictionalUniverse Jewish Warsaw before the Holocaust
hasForm prose
hasMedium print
hasProtagonist Aaron Greidinger
hasSubject Jewish culture
Yiddish intellectual life
death
faith
love
morality
language Yiddish
literaryForm novel
literaryMovement Jewish-American literature
mainTheme Jewish life in Warsaw
doomed love story
identity
impending Holocaust
memory
survival
narrativePerspective first-person
originalPublicationLanguage Yiddish
publisherOfEnglishEdition Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED
settingCountry Poland
settingPeriod pre–World War II
settingPlace Warsaw NERFINISHED
translatedInto English
multiple languages

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Icek Hersz Zynger
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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