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Buy this book on-line Grade, Chaim : THE AGUNAH [SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR ON TITLE PAGE]New York: Twayne Publishers; Indianapolis: Distributed By Bobbs-Merrill, 1974
1st English edition. Original Cloth in dust jacket. 8vo. 265 pages. 22 cm. Translation of Di 'agune. Translated from the Yiddish and with an introduction by Curt Leviant. "Di Agune ('The Abandoned Wife, ' 1961; Heb. Trans. 1962; Eng. Trans. 1974) , depicts all segments of Jewish Vilna between the wars. " - EJ 2008. "Grade's novel Di agune (1961; The Agunah) concerns an Orthodox woman whose husband is missing in action in wartime and who, according to Orthodox Jewish law, is forbidden to remarry, lest she enter into an adulterous union. " - Encyclopedia Brittanica. Subjects: Yiddish fiction - Translations into English. Yiddish fiction. Translations. Bookplate and owners stamp on title page. Tape repair to lower margin of front end paper; tiny tear to half title; in Very Good Dust Jacket. A very nice copy. (YID-21-54A) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Grade, Chaim : THE AGUNAH [SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR ON TITLE PAGE]. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, libri rari, out of print books, livres illustrées and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |