In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture.
From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.
In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture.
From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374416966 |
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| Publisher: | Square Fish |
| Publication date: | 05/01/1986 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Sales rank: | 1,051,977 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.15(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.65(d) |
| Age Range: | 9 - 14 Years |
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