Oyfn Sheydweg

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At the Crossroads

Author	Eli Schechtman
Original title	אפן שיידוועג
Country	Ukraine
Language	Yiddish
Publisher	Kharḳoṿ : Melukhe-farlag fun Ukraine, 1930
Publication date	1930

Oyfn Sheydweg ( At the Crossroads)^{[clarification needed]} is a 1930 novel by Eli Schechtman. It is his first published work.

Plot summary[]

The novel describes the decline of the shtetl after the October Revolution.^[1] Sсhechtman's heroes go through difficult times of “crossroads”; to the place described by Shekhtman, the revolution “doesn’t drive along a wide highway, but drags heavily in gardens, rolls down a mountain, leaning against the Jews like a thundercloud”.^[2]

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• USHMM Afn sheydṿeg / Elie Shekhṭman - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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