The Odyssey of an Apple Thief Contributor(s): Rozenbaumas, Moishe (Author), Rozenbaumas, Isabelle (Editor), Layton, Jonathan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0815636261 ISBN-13: 9780815636267 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Jewish - History | Jewish - General - History | Military - World War Ii |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2019946990 |
Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.36 lbs) 248 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris. Along the way, we get a rarely seen portrait of the lives of working-class Jewish youth in Telz/Telsiai, a religious town renowned for its yeshiva. We hear of the games children played, the theft of apples from a Catholic orchard, and Rozenbaumas's early apprenticeship as a tailor once his father leaves the country. |