· ”I have tried to create a written monument to the Lithuanian Jews”, says Grigory Kanovich in an interview with Baltic Worlds. Kanovich turns 90 this summer. At 85 he stopped writing when he published his last book, Shtetl Love Song. ‘I had intended for quite a long time to write about my mother with that joyous enthusiasm and abundant detail with which it is fitting to recall one's paren. · Shtetl Love Song Grigory Kanovich Noir Press ISBN: Lithuanian writer Grigory Kanovich has dedicated his life, in his own words, ‘to what has been lost, to what has been destroyed - the small Jewish town.’ His last novel, Shtetl Love Song, out for the first time in English, ‘is, in a sense, a requiem to all such Jewish towns.’.
Grigory Kanovich's latest novel tells of the dramatic and heartbreaking fate of a Lithuanian town called Mishkine. The towering chronicler of shtetl life in its heyday was, of course, Sholem. Shtetl Love Song, an autobiographical novel by Grigory Kanovich, is a masterpiece produced by a writer whose genius shines through every page. For all Litvaks this book is a journey into their ancestral homeland. The story ends as World War 2 breaks out on J, providing a glimpse into the terrifying days as the Germans invade Lithuania. In Shtetl Love Song Grigory Kanovich tells the story of his mother and in doing so peels back the surface of the Jewish community that lived in pre-war Lithuania. Set against the backdrop of the political turmoil of s, Kanovich lovingly recalls his native Jonava; its rich merchants and impoverished cobblers, the beggars and the gossips.
”I have tried to create a written monument to the Lithuanian Jews”, says Grigory Kanovich in an interview with Baltic Worlds. Kanovich turns 90 this summer. At 85 he stopped writing when he published his last book, Shtetl Love Song. Winner the Liudo Dovydeno Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers’ Union In Shtetl Love Song Grigory Kanovich tells the story of his mother and in doing so peels back the surface of the Jewish community that lived in pre-war Lithuania Set against the backdrop of the political turmoil of s, Kanovich lovingly recalls his native Jonava; its rich merchants and impoverished cobblers, the. Although Kanovich has now lived in Israel for more than a quarter century, his strong bond with Eastern Europe and the Russian language has never weakened. “Shtetl Love Song” belongs to the genre of homespun shtetl literature, which began with Mendele Mocher Sforim’s autobiography, “Shloyme Ben Khayems.”.
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