King of Yiddish /

King of Yiddish /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Leviant, Curt, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	[Livingston, Alabama] : Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama, [2015]
Description:	305 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jewish college teachers -- Fiction. Pogroms -- Poland -- Kielce -- Fiction. Pogroms. Jewish fiction. Jewish college teachers. Jerusalem -- Fiction. Poland -- Fiction. Poland -- Kielce. Middle East -- Jerusalem. Poland. Jewish fiction. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10488876

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ISBN:	9781604891614 1604891610 1604891602 (trade paper) 9781604891607 (trade paper)
Summary:	"A serio-comic novel, King of Yiddish immerses the reader into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting life natrratives plague Gafni: his etended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who mudered his farther in the notorious Kielce program, and Gafni's infatuation with Malina, a beauteous non-Jewish Polish linguist in Jerusalem to study Yiddish. Guess who her private tutor is? Rumors fly. Will synchronicity also fly? " --- p.[4] of the cover.

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Summary:	A serio-comic novel that plunges into the life of Shmulik Gafni, an Israeli professor of Yiddish. Two contrasting lives plague Gafni: his extended, obsessive search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in the notorious Kielce pogrom, and his infatuation with Malina, a beauteous non-Jewish Polish linguist studying Yiddish. Guess who her private tutor is? Rumors fly. Will synchronicity also fly?
Physical Description:	305 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:	9781604891614 1604891610 1604891602 9781604891607