The travels and adventures of Benjamin the Third. / Mendele Mocher Seforim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendele Mokher Sefarim, 1835-1917.

Contributor:

Spiegel, Moshe.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Schocken library ; 18.

Schocken library ; 18

Standardized Title:

Ḳitsur masʻot Binyamin ha-shelishi. English

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Jews--Fiction.

Jews.

Travelers--Fiction.

Travelers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 124 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.

Manufacture:

Brattleboro, Vt. : Printed by E. L. Hildreth & Co.

Other Title:

Travels of Benjamin III

Place of Publication:

New York : Schocken Books, [1949]

Contents:

Introduction

Preface

Who this Benjamin is, his beginnings, and how he hit upon the idea of his travels

How Benjamin became a martyr-and Zelda a deserted wife

Benjamin joins forces with Senderel the housewife

Exodus

First leg of the journey

Benjamin comes a cropper

Benjamin upsets the applecart

How the two went begging from door to door

The ancestors intercede

"Hurrah, the Red Jews!"

Wonder upon wonder on Lake Pyatignilovka

Steam baths-and hot water

In the toils

Once a bride, again a maid.

Notes:

Mendele Mocher Seforim is the pseudonym of Shalom Jacob Broyde or Abramovich.

Translation from: Ḳitsur masʻot Binyamin ha-Shelishi. dos heysṭ Di nesie,oder a rayze-beshraybung fun Binyomin dem Driṭen ... by Moshe Spiegel

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok November 1953".

OCLC:

32783828