Set in seventeenth-century Poland, The Slave tells the story of Jacob, a young Talmudic scholar sold into slavery after the Chmielnicki massacres - and who falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a wife who is not Jewish, and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.
- | Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- | Publisher: Goodreads Press
- | Publication Date: April 01, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 278 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1632922142
- | ISBN-13: 9781632922144
