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160:"Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book. The author lays out a panorama of Jewish life in the city-- the rabbis in black velvet and gabardine, the shopkeepers, the street urchins and schoolboys, the poverty, the confusion, the excitement of the prewar time. But even more, the author reveals himself; and the torments and mysteries that plagued him as a child will make his stories fascinating to other children....Reflecting a bygone world, the photographs add a further note of realism and power." - 152:"This is a collection of 19 episodes from Singer's boyhood life on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. "Singer has written an extraordinary book that will give many days of pleasure to adults as well as children. These are sensitive, youthful and observant portraits of what Jewish life was like in Poland." - 175:
Judges from the National Book Award for Children's Literature: "At a time when in children's literature the power of the imagination is frequently lost sight of or diluted, it is fortunate that we can honor a great storyteller. Mr. Singer has created out of remembered fragments of his own childhood a
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area of Warsaw. In each chapter, a different story is detailed, with a focus on specific people Singer encountered in his neighborhood during this period. The stories detail the conditions and emotions associated with daily life in the city, such as poverty, confusion and even excitement during the
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place instantly familiar where life is not neat and orderly, where the adventures of a boy throw into sharp and recognizable focus those resistant elements of the ever-troubled human condition."
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Roman Vishniac
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
0374416966
Warsaw
Poland
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jewish
Publishers Weekly
The Horn Book
National Book Award
ALA Notable Book


ISBN
0374416966
Macmillan Publishers
goodreads.com
amazon.com
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Family Moskat
Satan in Goray
The Magician of Lublin
The Slave
The Manor

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