Forward from Exile, The Autobiography of Shmarya Levin
by Levin, Shmarya; (Translated and edited by Maurice Samuel)
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1967. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (7.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Dust Jacket is lightly rubbed at the edges. From the Dust Jacket: "His contemporaries knew Levin as the greatest Zionist orator of his day, the teacher of two generations of Jews, one in Russia, one in America. Posterity will know him as the author of a matchless autobiography which unfolds in vivid colors the panorama of Russian Jewish life in the second half of the nineteenth century... with a richness of humor which Sholom Aleichem has not surpassed." Original black cloth. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo. xxiii, 419pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Title
- Forward from Exile, The Autobiography of Shmarya Levin
- Author
- Levin, Shmarya; (Translated and edited by Maurice Samuel)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Publisher
- The Jewish Publication Society of America
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 8vo. xxiii, 419pp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Judaica / Jewish Studies;
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