The Slave: A Novel
19622287486Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1962. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by author. Second printing. Signed by author with inscription "To Betsy the daughter of a great editor and a great friend." No jacket. Spine and boards faintly toned ink name on front endpaper. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 311 pp. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Cecil Hemley. The Slave Yiddish: romanized: Der Knecht is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer originally written in Yiddish that tells the story of Jacob a scholar sold into slavery in the aftermath of the Khmelnytsky massacres who falls in love with a gentile woman. Through the eyes of Jacob the book recounts the history of Jewish settlement in Poland at the end of the 17th century. While most of the book's protagonists are Jews the book is also a criticism of Orthodox Jewish society.1 The English version was translated by the author and Cecil Hemley.2 Farrar, Straus and Cudahy hardcover books
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