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...Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland...
...Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland...
...SLAVE (311 pp.)-Isaac Bashevis Singer-Farrar,Straus&Cudahy...
Tolerance & Temptation. The title figure of The Slave is a 17th century Polish Jew named Jacob. Marauding Cossacks have swept through his village, massacred most of the men, and carried the rest off to be sold as slaves. At the book's outset, Jacob has spent four years as a slave of the Gazdas, a Polish mountaineer people who practice a debased kind of paganism lightly colored by Christianity. Although a Talmudic scholar and a skilled woodcarver. Jacob has learned to tend the Gazdas' cattle, and he is tolerated because he is good at it. But he observes...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum stars Zero Mostel as a Roman slave in a racy adaptation of the plays of Plautus. Classic vaudeville and burlesque routines give this musical a high hilarity quotient, and six near nudettes prance appealingly amid the golden corn...