Orzeszkowa "Meir Ezofowicz'

Meir is a young man excommunicated because he does not follow the strict laws of the Jewish community in which he lives. He speaks out against the persecutions of other outlaw jews and for a more humanistic view. he also falls in love with a girl from the outlaw community. he is sent walking the world with the legendary book of teachings that his ancestor, the first to be ousted by the community, collected. The Jews is his community are not even vaguely assimilated into the greater country and culture in which their shtetle is situated and is shown when a nobleman comes to the rabbi and is not understood in his speech.