Motke ganev (1916; “Mottke the Vagabond,” 1917) is the title of a novel about the adventures of its mischievous protagonist Motke, which take him from the shtetl of his childhood into the criminal milieu of Warsaw. Originally from rural Poland, Sholem Asch (1880–1957) published the novel in Yiddish shortly after his move to New York; the trans…
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Shore, Alan, “Motke”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 05 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0562>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20210312
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