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The Slave
The Slave
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. — In the Chmielnicki massacres (1648-1649), the Cossacks kill Jacob’s wife and children. He survives by fleeing his native Josefov, but he is captured by brigands, sold as a slave to Jan Bzik. Wanda, Jan's daughter, falls in love with him and takes care of him. Jacob remains an Orthodox Jew and their rel...  more »
ISBN: 375794
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 311
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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This is a wonderfull book, not always easy to read because of the tribulations the hero goes through in his life. It is very colorful writing by this well known author. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the life of Jewish people in the middle ages.


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