The Stolen Jew

Library of Modern Jewish Literature

by Jay Neugeboren

When Nathan Malkin returns to New York from premature retirement in Israel, he comes bearing a heavy baggage of memory-insistent recollections of his parents' bitter marriage, of the tragic deaths of his wife and only son, and of his strange, guiltridden relationship with a deranged, now deceased brother, Nachman. Central to Malkin's schemes is The Stolen Jew, a famous novel he wrote many years back that tells the luminous, wonderfully melodramatic tale of a Jewish boy in Imperial Russia kidnapped from a shtetl to fulfill another boy's term of service in the czar's army.

322 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reminiscences about the difficulties faced by Russian Jews and the "Sophie's choices" of which sons to send to their deaths on the front line.