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The story is set in the mid-1880s in Russian-ruled Poland. The main character Yasha Mazur is a magician from Lublin, who travels around Poland to perform before audiences. He is Jewish, but not very devout, and married to Esther.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1971
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Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin) is a turn-of-the-20th-century Jewish stage magician, womaniser, con man, and mystic. His great ambition is to figure out how to fly – an ambition he eventually achieves but not as a magic trick. He tours the western reaches of the old Russian Empire. Yasha is married to Esther (Linda Bernstein), but he is rarely home in Lub...
The film was a box office and critical failure. As an example, Time Out Londonwrote, "...Golan overdramatises, tips into hysteria, and substitutes a specious mysticism that is sadly literal."
The Magician of Lublin at IMDbThe Magician of Lublin at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Magician of Lublin at AllMovieThe Magician of Lublin paints an extraordinary picture of Warsaw at the turn of the century while examining issues related to Jewish faith and identity. Source: SuperSummary.com 4 stars
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The Magician of Lublin, novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published serially as Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin in the Yiddish-language daily newspaper Forverts in 1959 and published in book form in English in 1960. The entire novel did not appear in Yiddish in book form until 1971.
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Oct 4, 2011 · An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale.
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This novel tells the story of Yasha Mazur, a talented and renowned 19th-century Jewish magician living in Poland. Yasha is a complex character, torn between his own desires and the expectations of his religious community.
The Slave (Yiddish: דער קנעכט, romanized: Der Knecht) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer originally written in Yiddish that tells the story of Jacob, a scholar sold into slavery in the aftermath of the Khmelnytsky massacres, who falls in love with a gentile woman.
