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The Bridal Canopy Agnon, S. J.
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Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket 1937 Literary Guild BOOK CLUB EDITION. Clean and unmarked; binding tight. Age-tanning to paper, but still very legible. Noticeable average wear to jacket: edges crumpled and rubbed; faint damp-staining to flaps. Great reading / research copy. 373 pages. Language: English (translated from the Hebrew by I. M. Lask). ''[T]ells the story of Reb Yudel, a simple Jewish scholar who sets out to travel in the lands of the Kaiser to seek bridegrooms for his three daughters.... [M]any adventures befall him as he beguiles the time of his journey by exchanging stories with his waggoner and other wayfarers. ... [The book] has the pattern of epic literature, and also its religious and supernatural background.'--from jacket flap. Author later won (shared) the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. Keywords: vintage, collectible, Samuel Joseph Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Hakhnasat kalah, Israeli, world, fiction, Galician, Jew, Judaism, Judaica. No ISBN.
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7.00 USD
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