| A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner) Contributor(s): Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Author), Vishniac, Roman (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0374416966 ISBN-13: 9780374416966 Publisher: Square Fish OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1986 Annotation: An ALA Notable Book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical - Young Adult Nonfiction | History - Europe - Young Adult Nonfiction | Religion - Judaism |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 70095461 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.14" W x 7.74" (0.48 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 48132 Reading Level: 6.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Singer, Isaac Bashevis: - Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, and children's books. His books include The Slave and Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. |