# Melnitz

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- Authors: [Charles Lewinsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lewinsky), [Shaun Whiteside](https://www.bookquiver.com/shaun-whiteside)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-02-04

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 OXFORD-WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE. 1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the doorstep stands his young distant cousin, Janki, half-dead and begging for refuge. The pitiful figure is invited in and given a coveted place in the bosom of the family, but when Janki recovers and regains his ambition and his fine-looks, he will change the Meijer family’s lives for generations to come… In the tradition of the great family romances of the nineteenth century, Melnitz is the saga of the Swiss-Jewish Meijer family, spanning five generations from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II. It is a novel of fate, fortune and great falls; a homage to the sunken world of yiddish culture and a celebration of the enduring spirit of biting Jewish humour.

## Editions

### Melnitz

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-767-2
- Published: 2016-02-04
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Melnitz](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lewinsky/fr/melnitz) (fr_FR)