Shtol un Ayzn (שטאָל און אײַזן) is a 1927 Yiddish language novel by Polish-Jewish novelist Israel Joshua Singer.[1] The plot follows the travels of Benjamin Lerner, a deserter from the Imperial Russian Army, in the Kingdom of Poland and Russia immediately before the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. It was translated into English as Blood Harvest in 1935,[citation needed] and re-translated as Steel and Iron in 1969.[2]
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edit- ^ Kerbel, Sorrel, ed. (2004). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers. Taylor & Francis. p. 1024. ISBN 978-1-135-45607-8.
The repeated attacks made on Singer's anti-communist attitudes embittered him, and after the appearance of his first novel, Shtol un ayzn (Steel and Iron).
- ^ "STEEL AND IRON by I. J. Singer". Kirkus Reviews. 1 May 1969. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
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