The Slave

9 hrs. 32 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrator Fira Kanter

Description

Published in 1961 in Yiddish as the novel “Slave,” the book was translated into English the following year and soon became a worldwide bestseller. The novel is set in Poland in the 17th century. After a massacre carried out by haidamaks in a Jewish shtetl, Jacob, a scholar of the Talmud, loses all his relatives and becomes a slave of a Polish peasant. But the will to live works miracles: after enduring many humiliations, repeatedly risking death, he managed to preserve his faith and find love.

The touching love story of Jacob and the Polish girl Wanda, who, for the sake of love, left the Catholic faith and became Sarah, continues to move the minds and hearts of readers to this day.