The Stolen Jew Contributor(s): Neugeboren, Jay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815605366 ISBN-13: 9780815605362 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: When Nathan Malkin returns to New York from premature retirement in Israel, he comes bearing a heavy baggage of memory -- insistent recollections of his parents' bitter marriage, of the tragic deaths of his wife and only son, and of his strange, guilt-ridden relationship with a deranged, now deceased brother, Nachman. Central to Malkin's schemes is The Stolen Jew, a famous novel he wrote many years back that tells the luminous, wonderfully melodramatic tale of a Jewish boy in Imperial Russia kidnapped from a shtetl to fulfill another boy's term of service in the czar's army. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Christian - General - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 98-19554 |
Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.08" W x 9.07" (1.00 lbs) 332 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: This story is about Nathan Malkin who returns to New York from a premature retirement in Israel. He bears a heavy baggage of memory - his parents' marriage, the deaths of his wife and son, and his relationship with his brother. Central to his schemes is The Stolen Jew a novel he wrote years ago. |