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Plot summary. 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
- 201
- 1971
- 1971
Plot. Yasha Mazur ( Alan Arkin) is a turn-of-the-20th-century Jewish stage magician, womaniser, con man, and mystic. His ambition is to figure out how to fly. He tours the western reaches of the old Russian Empire. Yasha is married to Esther (Linda Bernstein), but he is rarely home in Lublin, and they have not been able to have any children.
- Dov Seltzer, Maurice Jarre
- October 1979 (Chicago)
- Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus, Harry N. Blum
3,406 ratings242 reviews. Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town.
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Sep 14, 2010 · The Magician of Lublin: A Novel. Paperback – September 14, 2010. The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic―a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man's flight from love. Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland.
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- 1971
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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. The novel is set in.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Half Jewish, half Gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. For Yasha is an escape artist not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women.
Sep 14, 2010 · The Magician of Lublin. A Novel. Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer; Translated from the Yiddish by Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph Singer. About This Book. The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic—a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man's flight from love. Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like... Read More. Page Count. 256. Genre.
