The Street: A Novel

Yisroel Rabon

1928

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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility, lassitude, and inertia. Looking up at the sky, we saw the sun rise day after day; and day after day it went down on the cheerless white snow-and ice…

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Yisroel Rabon

1900–1941

The Yiddish novelist and poet Yisroel Rabon grew up in Baluty, an impoverished quarter near Lódz that he described in his novel Balut: roman fun a forshtot (1934). Rabon spent most of his life in Lódz but escaped to Vilna after the German invasion of Poland; there he was shot to death. Rabon’s realistic fiction and poetry show marginalized youths and soldiers in urban settings; his writings explore homelessness, sex, and violence. Rabon was also an editor, translator, and writer of pulp fiction.

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