Title: The magician of Lublin
First published: 1960
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews in fiction, Jews, Literatura norte-americana, Romance, Jews, fiction, Poland, fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Poland, Lublin (Poland)
Time periods: mid 1880s in a Russian ruled Poland
LC classification: PZ3.S61657 Mag