The Bloody Hoax

by Sholom Aleichem

Book Overview

Tells the story of a poor Jew and a wealthy Gentile who exchange places for year, exploring the prejudice and fear that they encountered while in their new identities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253304016
• ISBN13: 9780253304018
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Skilful evocation of how it is to be target of a blood libel

This novel, not the most subtle piece of writing in literature, nevertheless deserves a read because it is effective in putting the reader in the place of someone accused of an absurd, but bestial, crime. Reveals the psychosis of antisemitism very well - the impossibility of defending oneself through appeals to reason. Entertaining and gripping, too.