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Genre/Form: | Autobiographical fiction Yiddish fiction Biographies Short stories Autographs (Provenance) Biography |
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Named Person: | Isaac Bashevis Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Material Type: | Biography, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Isaac Bashevis Singer; Roman Vishniac |
OCLC Number: | 59403 |
Description: | 227 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Who I am -- The trip from Radzymin to Warsaw -- A day of pleasure -- Why the geese shrieked -- Reb Asher the dairyman -- To the wild cows -- The washwoman -- I become a collector -- The strong ones -- Reb Itchele and Shprintza -- The mysteries of the Cabala -- The satin coat -- A boy philosopher -- The shot at Sarajevo -- Hunger -- The journey -- Bilgoray -- The new winds -- Shosha. |
Responsibility: | Isaac Bashevis Singer ; with photographs by Roman Vishniac. |
Abstract:
Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904-1991.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904-1991 -- Homes and haunts -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904-1991 -- Childhood and youth.
- Authors, Yiddish -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography.
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Social life and customs.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904-
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish authors -- Biography.
- Authors, Yiddish.
- Homes.
- Jews.
- Manners and customs.
- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jiddisch.
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