7: Text excerpts, Dan Miron and Anita Norich's “The Politics of Benjamin III," 1981.

7: Text excerpts, Dan Miron and Anita Norich's “The Politics of Benjamin III," 1981.

From resource kit: Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh's "The Brief Travels of Benjamin III"

Suggested Activity: Read these excerpts and consider how and why Abramovitsh uses allusions to British political figures and institutions.

Source: Dan Miron and Anita Norich, “The Politics of Benjamin III: Intellectual Significance and its Formal Correlatives in Sh.Y. Abramovitsh’s Masoes Benyomin hashlishi,” Field of Yiddish, IV (Summer 1981), 1–115.