How long does it take to read Der Knecht?
Der Knecht by Isaac Bashevis Singer takes about 5 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 311 pages, about 85,525 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1648, when the Cossack leader Bogdan Chmielnitski led an uprising against the aristocratic leaders of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jews, caught between the rival armies, were slaughtered or enslaved. For Jacob, a Jew, and Wanda, a Christian, to fall in love in the wake of "The Great Catastrophe" was unthinkable to both their communities.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, Fiction, short stories (single author), Jiddisch, Yiddish fiction, Fiction, general
