Book description
Available in English translation for the first time, Dineh, posthumously published, is an autobiographical Yiddish-language novel by Ida Maze (1893-1962). Dineh is a pastorale laced with beauty and sorrow and a bildungsroman told from the point of view of a young girl. Living in what is now Belarus, Maze's eponymous…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Dineh as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Dineh took me inside the experience of a young girl growing up in the “Fiddler on the Roof” world at the turn of the 20th Century.
Like James Joyce’s Dubliners, it begins in the mindset of a very young child whose world gradually opens up and opens out as she grows up. The book is chock-full of everyday life -- details about household tasks, farm animals, and country landscapes -- and also teeming with family drama and the pressures of the larger world.
My favorite scene is reflected on the book’s cover. A tree growing beside the girl’s bedroom…
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