The Estate [antikvár]

Author's Note The Estate is a sequel to and the conclusion of The Manor, published in 1967. The Manor begins with the Polish uprising against the Tsar in 1863 and The Estate ends in the last years of the nineteenth century - an epoch when humanism undertook to practise what it had preached for generations. What happened in the village of Jampol, and what was discussed by a small group of self-educated youths in furnished rooms in Warsaw, became the basis of the social upheavals and the terrible disillusions of our present time. The whole work appeared in serial form in the Jewish Daily Forward between 1952 and 1955. Even though The Family Moskat was written a few years earlier, it is in a way a continuation of the same saga. The Estate was translated into English by Joseph Singer, the son of my brother I. J. Singer; by Elaine Gottlieb, the wife of my unforgettable friend Cecil Hemley; and by Elizabeth Shub, who alsó edited the book before I sent it to Róbert Giroux, the editorin-chief. I thank them all for their most helpful efforts. I.B.S.