Erev

Eli Shechtman

1965

In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra. The Boyars called him Father Ezra.

And at every Passover seder, after the first benediction each Boyar would tell his children, and his children’s…

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Creator Bio

Eli Shechtman

1908–1996

Yiddish writer Eli Shechtman was born in the village of Vaskovichi, in Ukrainian Poleyse. He received a traditional Jewish education and studied in the literary department of the Jewish Teachers’ Institute at Odessa University. His first novel Oyfn sheydveg (At the Crossroads), was published in 1930. He joined the Soviet Writers’ Union in 1934 and continued to publish fiction until World War II; he later served as a Red Army officer. In 1953, during the “Doctors’ Plot” and the persecution of Jewish intelligentsia, Shechtman was arrested on charges of espionage and Zionism. After Stalin’s death, he was rehabilitated and began writing his main work, the epic novel Erev, describing the long historical odyssey of a Jewish family. Shechtman immigrated to Israel in 1972.

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