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Yentl the Yeshiva boy / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
Van Pelt Library PJ5129.S49 Y4 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Juvenile fiction.
- Jews.
- Jewish women--Juvenile fiction.
- Jewish women.
- Sex role--Religious aspects.
- Sex role.
- Gender identity--Juvenile fiction.
- Gender identity.
- Passing (Identity)--Juvenile fiction.
- Passing (Identity).
- Disguise--Juvenile fiction.
- Disguise.
- Yeshivas--Juvenile fiction.
- Yeshivas.
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Man-woman relationships--Juvenile fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Talmud Torah (Judaism)--Juvenile fiction.
- Talmud Torah (Judaism).
- Ethics--Juvenile fiction.
- Ethics.
- Love.
- Jews--Fiction.
- Jewish women--Education--Fiction.
- Talmud Torah (Judaism)--Fiction.
- Disguise--Fiction.
- Education.
- Passing (Identity)--Fiction.
- Yeshivas--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Portenar, Myron A. (donor) (Portenar Collection copy)
- Portenar, Anne Jaffe (donor) (Portenar Collection copy)
- Freedman, Robert, 1929- (donor) (Freedman copy)
- Freedman, Molly (donor) (Freedman copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1985 (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Frasconi, Antonio (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 58 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- USA : Rembrandt Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1983]
- Summary:
- Originally published as part of Short Friday. At the death of her father, Yentl cuts her hair, dresses as a young man, and sets out to study at a yeshiva.
- Notes:
- Includes notes on the woodcuts on p. [61] and dust jacket.
- "Translated from the Yiddish by Marion Magid and Elizabeth Pollet."--T.p. verso.
- "The text of this book was set in Emerson Monotype by A. Colish, Inc. The book was designed by Antonio Frasconi, printed by Rembrandt Press, Inc., and bound by A. Horowitz and Sons"--Colophon.
- Limited ed. of 450 copies.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert and Molly Freedman.
- Portenar Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy "signed by the author and artist, is limited to four hundred and fifty numbered copies, of which this is copy number 167".
- Potok Collection copy housed in slipcase.
- Potok Collection copy has [1] loose leaf from Bauman Rare Books laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0374293481
- 9780374293482
- 0374293473
- 9780374293475
- OCLC:
- 9622313
- Online:
- Publisher description
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