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Stories SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
author
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Blinkin, Meir.; Rosenfeld, Max
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0873958187
print isbn13
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9780873958189
ebook isbn13
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9780585092997
language
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English
subject
Blinkin, Meir,--1879-1915--Translations into English, Jews--Social life and customs--Fiction.
publication date
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1984
lcc
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PJ5129.B5765A26 1984eb
ddc
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839/.0933
subject
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Blinkin, Meir,--1879-1915--Translations into English, Jews--Social life and customs--Fiction.
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Stories by Meir Blinkin
Translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld With an Introduction by Ruth R. Wisse
The SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen, Editor
State University of New York Press Albany
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany 1984 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Blinkin, Meir, 18791915. Stories. 1. Blinkin, Meir, 18791915Translations, English. I. Rosenfeld, Max, 1913- II. Title. PJ5129.B5765A26 1984 839'.0933 83-15564 ISBN 0-87395-818-7
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Contents
Introduction by Ruth R. Wisse
vii
1. Card Game
1
2. Women
48
3. Doctor Machover
70
4. The Mysterious Secret
89
5. Family Life
111
6. Troubles
119
7. Incomprehensible
126
8. In a Dream
130
9. Smoke
135
10. The Freethinker
142
11. The Little Calf
150
12. A Simple Life
155
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Introduction
By Ruth R. Wisse
This is the story of an interrupted literary career. Meir Blinken* was born in 1879, twenty years after the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, in the same small town of Pereyeslav, within the Jewish Pale of Settlement. He recalled his birthplace as a poor, insulated community, "surrounded by high thick woods, as though designed to prevent strangers from prying." While he was still a boy, his parents moved with him to Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, evidently seeking better economic opportunities for themselves and their children. As a major city, Kiev was outside the limits of Jewish settlement, except for that tiny minority with capital or skills that were considered essential. The parents of Meir Blinken were probably among the many hundreds of Jews who were driven by poverty to try their luck in the larger city despite the fugitive existence to which this condemned them.
Blinken was educated in a Talmud Torah, a community-supported Jewish primary school, and then at the Kiev Trade School, where he received a secular education. He began the study of medicine, but because of the need for a residence permit, granted only to those engaged in useful trade, he was also apprenticed to a cabinetmaker to learn the skills of carpentry.
* Meir Blinkin's name was spelled Blinkin, but the immigration authorities changed the second "i" to an "e" so that the official records were always spelled Blinken. I use the American authorities' version ending in "ken."
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(Sholem Aleichem's wife, Olga, had become a dentist in order to secure for her family the residence permit that was otherwise denied them.) It may be assumed that like most young Jews with intellectual inclinations, Blinken was caught up by the liberal opposition to the Czar, and sympathized with the growing revolutionary movement. But he had married young and his immediate concern was for elemental safety. The combination of native anti-Semitism and czarist agitation against the Jews resulted in a wave of pogroms throughout the Ukraine between 1902 and 1905, forcing thousands of Jews to flee for their lives. Blinken temporarily left his wife and two sons and set out for America. He arrived in New York in 1904, at the age of twenty-five, one of some 105,000 Jews to reach America that year.
By the time of Blinken's arrival, the Lower East Side of Manhattan was the most densely populated area on the globe, thanks to the unprecendented influx of new immigrants. Newcomers from similar backgrounds preferred to cluster together so as to provide one another with at least some buttressing familiarity on this new continent. The Jews, too, formed their own neighborhoods, dotted with tiny synagogues and
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