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The Samurai of Vishogrod : the notebooks of Jacob Marateck / retold by Shimon and Anita Wincelberg.
LIBRA DS135.R95 M288
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LIBRA DS135 R95 M288
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LIBRA DS135.R95 M288
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LIBRA - Rare DS135.R95 M288 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wincelberg, Shimon.
- Wincelberg, Anita, author.
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Marateck, Jacob, 1883-1950.
- Marateck, Jacob.
- Jews--Soviet Union--Social conditions.
- Jews.
- Soviet Union.
- Social conditions.
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
- Jewish soldiers--Biography.
- Jewish soldiers.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Jewish.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 207 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, [1976]
- Contents:
- The reluctant wedding
- The samurai of Vishogrod and the very small pogrom
- Eating days
- The lean of the land
- Return from the netherworld
- A trade for an aristocrat
- A cosmopolitan way of life
- The smell of fresh bread
- The great Warsaw labor dispute
- How to become the Czar's son-in-law
- A small cheer for corruption
- The Litvaks
- The fall (and resurrection) of Haman
- A blow struck for the revolution
- The phantom synagogue
- The lost and found battlefield
- Banzai!
- The way to the firing squad
- The second road to the left.
- Notes:
- "Copyright © 1976 by The Jewish Publication Society of America."
- "First edition."
- "The stories here recounted were drawn from the first sixteen of the twenty-eight notebooks filled by Jacob Marateck and never in his lifetime prepared for publication."--Dust jacket.
- Front endpapers illustrated with pages from Marateck's notebooks.
- "Jacket design by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden."
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0827600747 :
- OCLC:
- 2201876
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