Yoshe Kalb

Based on a popular folk legend. Yoshe Kalb is a brilliant and haunting novel set in nineteenth-century Galicia. Nahum, a naive and sensitive young man, is thrust into the decadent world of corrupt and competing hasidic dynasties when he marries the daughter of a powerful Rabbi. I. J. Singer explores the darker side of hasidic life and the forces of sin and saintliness that vie for Nahum's soul.

• Author
• Israel J. Singer, Maurice Samuel

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 256

• Publisher
• Schocken

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780805208603

• Genres
• jewish, fiction, judaica, classics, poland

• Release date
• 1988