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9780374254049 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1955, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi.
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9780374524791 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 31, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Mistaken messianic fervor in the seventeenth-century Polish Jewish community of Goray results in mass hysteria, licentiousness, and the appearance of the Devil.
9780449243268 | Fawcett Books, August 1, 1980, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi.
9780374500825 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1979), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Mistaken messianic fervor in the seventeenth-century Polish Jewish community of Goray results in mass hysteria, licentiousness, and the appearance of the Devil
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Short stories by the contemporary writer capture the varied dimensions of Jewish life
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9780374263003 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1964, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Short stories by the contemporary writer capture the varied dimensions of Jewish life
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9780060284770 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of four sisters who mixed up their feet in bed one night, the first shlemiel, and the famous and foolish seven Elders of Chelm.
9780060256982 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 11, 1966, cover price $16.00 | also contains Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories | About this edition: The 7 tales in this book had their beginnings in middle-European Jewish folklore/legend- a world where the cruel hardships and wry misunderstandings of everyday life could be offset, as often as not, by wondrous visits from angels and demons.
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9780898459753 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, January 1, 1990, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Humorous illustrations accompany these seven fairy tales that have originated from European Jewish folklore
Library:
9780060284787 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 2001), cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Tells the stories of four sisters who mixed up their feet in bed one night, the first shlemiel, and the famous and foolish seven Elders of Chelm.
9780060256999 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1966, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Humorous illustrations accompany these seven fairy tales that have originated from European Jewish folklore
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9780374508326 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1968, cover price $29.00
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9780374149000 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1969, cover price $6.95
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9780786108084 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1995), cover price $56.95
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9780694501519 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, June 1, 1986, cover price $12.95
9780694501533 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, January 1, 1970), cover price $14.00
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A devout Jew brings the word of God to the pagan Mazovia in Poland, helps abolish human sacrifice, and unites the people.
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9780374337957 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1970, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A devout Jew brings the word of God to the pagan Mazovia in Poland, helps abolish human sacrifice, and unites the people.
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9780374158804 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1970, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Collection of twenty-one short stories by the eminent Polish writer introduces a variety of absorbing characters in such settings as America, Israel, and Argentina
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An orphaned youth receives a magical charm which transforms his life and brings him face to face with good and evil in the Kingdom of Good King Maltuch
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9780374302382 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1971), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A young orphan's life is changed when the angel he meets in the forest gives him an amulet that will fulfill every wish.
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Retells the Old Testament tale of the destruction of Sodom.
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9780374384265 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1972, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Retells the Old Testament tale of the destruction of Sodom.
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9780374132170 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1973, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Twenty-four stories depicting life in the United States and pre-war Poland explore the depths and dimensions of truth
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9780374324445 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1973, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Even though they were poor, the people of Chelm were content with their lives until the Council of Sages made them aware of their problems.
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9780374424299 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Even though they were poor, the people of Chelm were content with their lives until the Council of Sages made them aware of their problems.
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9780374384203 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1974, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: As each animal boasts of the qualities he feels make him especially worthy to go on Noah's ark, Noah takes a particular liking to the dove.
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9780374483821 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1987, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: As each animal boasts of the qualities he feels make him especially worthy to go on Noah's ark, Noah takes a particular liking to the dove.
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The collection of stories deals with the inexhaustable and baffling passions, problems, and personalities of Yiddish-speaking Polish Jews in the old country or the United States
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9780374229931 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1975, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The collection of stories deals with the inexhaustable and baffling passions, problems, and personalities of Yiddish-speaking Polish Jews in the old country or the United States
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When their wishes fail, three children learn that they must deserve by effort what they had wanted to get too easily.
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9780374373702 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1976, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The plan of three Polish children to make the traditional wish on the last night of the Feast of Tabernacles has an unexpected outcome
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9780374354909 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1976, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories which explores the humor and life of the people of Poland.
Paperback:
9780374454876, titled "Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories" | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A collection of short stories which explores the humor and life of the people of Poland.
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9780374529116 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2003, cover price $26.00
9780449240670 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1977), cover price $2.95
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9780374516246, titled "A Crown of Feathers" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1981, cover price $28.00
9780449234655 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, February 1, 1978), cover price $2.95
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Singer describes his life and literary career in Warsaw and the love affairs marking his search for a genuine relationship
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9780385123570 | Doubleday, March 1, 1978, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Singer describes his life and literary career in Warsaw and the love affairs marking his search for a genuine relationship
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9780374263362 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An aspiring young writer in Warsaw, during the 1930s, finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women
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9780374524807 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 30, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An aspiring young writer in Warsaw during the 1930s finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women
9780374521424 | Reissue edition (Noonday Pr, October 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation.
9780449208083 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1984), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation.
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Product Description: A collection of short stories exploring the humor and life of the Jewish people of Poland.
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9780440466420 | Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1979, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: A collection of short stories exploring the humor and life of the Jewish people of Poland.
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Product Description: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire. He owned a fine house and had a wife, Esther, who was devoted to him. Life was good, but Yasha was destined to find God and to discover faith, and there was no middle road...read more
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9780899661568 | Buccaneer Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: 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.
9780374196332, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1979), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 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
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9780449214794 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, September 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781893079175, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Unabridged edition (Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc, September 1, 2002), cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire.
9781893079076, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Abridged edition (Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc, November 1, 2000), cover price $50.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780886461874, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Dh Audio, March 1, 1987, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire.
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Complete text of The Magician of Lublin is accompanied by four episodes from In My Fathers Court and fifteen short stories
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9780374177478 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1979), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Complete text of The Magician of Lublin is accompanied by four episodes from In My Fathers Court and fifteen short stories
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9780449213100 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 1987), cover price $3.50
9780374502560, titled "The Spinoza of Market Street" | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1979), cover price $19.00
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9780374520809 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1987), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Two tales, The Manor and The Estate, chronicle the lives of three generations of the Jacoby family against the advent of modern civilization in nineteenth-century Poland
9780380430420 | Avon Books, April 1, 1979, cover price $6.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786107049 | Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $62.95
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