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Translated from the yiddish by nephew joseph singer. Isaac bashevis singers 14 novels in english, memoirs, and. These books chronicle the changes in, and eventual breakup of, large jewish families during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as their members are differently affected by the secularism and. The manor is the first of 2 novels based around 3 generations of a jewish family in nineteenth century poland. Ultimately, this required an interlibrary loan, and the copy i received had obviously never been read.
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