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The book of paradise / Itzik Manger ; translated and with an introduction by Robert Adler Peckerar.
Van Pelt Library PJ5129.M26 V8 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manger, Itzik, 1901-1969, author.
- Series:
- Pushkin Press classics
- Standardized Title:
- Ṿunderlekhe lebnsbashraibung fun Shmuʼel Aba Aberṿo. English
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Paradise--Judaism--Fiction.
- Paradise.
- Jews--Europe, Eastern--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Angels--Fiction.
- Angels.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Jewish fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 251 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin Press Classics, 2023.
- Summary:
- "On being expelled from Paradise, young Samuel Abba pull a crafty trick, managing to arrive on earth with his memory intact. He quickly begins regaling the humans around him with mischievous stories of a Paradise far from their expectations; a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs, and the same divisions and temptations that shape the human world. The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece, and the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers. Written in the midst of rising anti-Semitism in 1930s Europe, its raucous blend of sacred and profane is a slyly profound reflection of the author's turbulent times." -- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Original title in Yiddish (non-roman) on title page verso
- ISBN:
- 1782279253
- 9781782279259
- OCLC:
- 1343719569
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