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Magician of Lublin
By Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Buccaneer Books
Publication date September 1, 1984
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780899661568
ISBN-10 0899661564
Availability§ Publication Cancelled
Original list price $10.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN (orig. published in print in 1960) tells the story of Yasha, a talented magician who performs throughout Poland in the last 1800’s. He has the talent to pick any lock, escape any barrier. A non-observant Jew, Yasha finds that his abilities to juggle before an audience extend to the lives he must juggle off-stage. While his religious, dutiful wife waits for him at home, his many mistresses eagerly await his next trip to the city.

Yasha Mazur, the main character, is a Jewish Don Juan, consumed with restlessness and expressing it through a myriad of affairs. Caught between shtetl values and theatrical sophistication, Yasha is confronted with the greatest challenge of his life. How he escapes, and ultimately finds his own true self, is a parable of man’s ongoing search for personal meaning.

Editions
Hardcover
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from Buccaneer Books (September 1, 1984)
9780899661568 | details & prices | List price $10.00
About: THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN (orig.
Reissue edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (March 1, 1979); titled "The Magician of Lublin"
9780374196332 | details & prices | List price $9.95
About: Caught between his eagerness to win fame and fortune as a performer and his reluctance to give up his easy life of pleasure, a late-nineteenth-century Polish magician and holy man finds himself on the brink of disaster
Paperback
Book cover for 9780449214794
 
With Radu Mihaescu | Reissue edition from Fawcett Books (September 1, 1985)
9780449214794 | details & prices | List price $3.95
This edition also contains Boshi-amazing Masters
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780886461874 Book cover for 9781893079076
 
Unabridged edition from Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc (September 1, 2002); titled "The Magician of Lublin"
9781893079175 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $50.95
With Larry Keith (other contributor) | Abridged edition from Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc (November 1, 2000); titled "The Magician of Lublin"
9781893079076 | details & prices | 4.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $50.95
About: Caught between his eagerness to win fame and fortune as a performer and his reluctance to give up his easy life of pleasure, a late-nineteenth-century Polish magician and holy man finds himself on the brink of disaster.
With Eli Wallach (other contributor) | from Dh Audio (March 1, 1987); titled "The Magician of Lublin"
9780886461874 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $16.99
About: The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic—a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from loveYasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland.

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