Tsilke the Wild

The free-spir it ed, 19-year old Tsilke has spent her whole life in the for est, but what hap pens when the out side world, with its strange rules and social oblig a tions, begins to encroach on her syl van idyll? Segalovit sh's 1922 nov el-which scan dal ized and enter tained a gen er a tion of Pol ish-Jew ish read ers, and left its mark on the pop u lar imag i na tion-cement ed his posi tion as one of the most pop u lar Yid dish writ ers of the inter war peri od. "Segalovitsh [...] is unfailingly in dialogue with his own shadow." - Itsik Manger "Packed with emotions." - Rokhl Korn "Incomparable [...] Segalovitsh doesn't write like the rest of us." - Yehoshua Perle