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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner) Paperback - 1986

by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Roman Vishniac (Photographer)

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An ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War II--featuring striking black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac.

In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture.

From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.

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I WAS born in the town of Radzymin, near Warsaw, the capital of Poland, on July 14, 1904.

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  • Title A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner)
  • Author Isaac Bashevis Singer; Roman Vishniac (Photographer)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Square Fish, New York
  • Publication date 1986-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780374416966 / 0374416966
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.74 x 5.14 x 0.6 in (19.66 x 13.06 x 1.52 cm)
  • Age range 09 to 13 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 8
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Young Adult Biography
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - Poland - Warsaw, Singer, Isaac Bashevis
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 70095461
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Publishers Weekly, 04/25/1986, Page 0

About the author

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, and children's books. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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