“Smoke Rising Day and Night”: Exploring Chava Rosenfarb’s Implicit Mysticism in "Edgia’s Revenge"

The central preoccupation of Chava Rosenfarb’s “Edgia’s Revenge” is an escape from a perceived outward Jewishness. That Rosenfarb’s protagonist is never afforded this vital flight is one of the story’s key dramas that plays out in the form of a power dynamic between two Holocaust survivors, Rella an...

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Main Author: Jesse Toufexis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/York University Libraries 2021-10-01
Series:Canadian Jewish Studies
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Online Access:https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40240