The Sorrowful Eyes Of Hannah Karajich / / Ivan Olbracht.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Olbracht, Ivan,
• MitwirkendeR: Holub, Miroslav,; Urwin Lewitová, Iris,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajic --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633865460; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9789633865460
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ivan Olbracht.

The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich is a lyrical, deeply moving story of love and the pain of emancipation, set in the now vanished world of rural East European Jewish village life. Hanna is the most beautiful girl in all Polona, a Hasidic community in the remote province of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia. Involvement in the exciting new movement of Zionism takes her away to a commune in a nearby town. But there she meets and falls in love with the strangely named Ivo Karajich: a Jew, yet not a Jew. The agonizing drama that follows, plants into her beautiful almond-shaped eyes the hard grain of sorrow that her children, too, will inherit. Olbracht's novella is both a great love story and a marvellous portrait of a world that modernity threatened and Hitler destroyed.