The Family Mashber: A Novel by "Der Nister"/"the Hidden One" - Hardcover

The Family Mashber ("The Hidden One") (First Edition)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Summit, 1987. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($22.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf. An epic novel of life before the Russian Revolution. A Yiddish masterpiece. Der Nister is a pen name used by Pinhas Kahanovitch, member of the 1920s Yiddish modernist literature movement in Kiev. He died in a Stalinist prison hospital in 1950. This book contains the first two volumes of his sage, but the third disappeared when the author was arrested and presumed lost. Di mishpokhe Mashber ("The Family Mashber") was translated into Hebrew in 1962, into French in 1984, into English by Leonard Wolf in 1987, into German in 1990, and into Dutch in 2002 by Willy Brill. Der Nister appears as one of the main characters in the novel The World to Come (2006) by Dara Horn. Artikel-Nr. Fiction-Yiddish-Nister

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