A Day of Pleasure
Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (national Book Award Winner)
Square Fish · Print & ebook · May 1, 1986
An ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War II--featuring striking black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac.
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- Who it’s for
- Childhood memories and striking photographs bring a vanished Warsaw world into view.
- Themes
- Hasidic Jewish childhood, Poverty and family life, War and forced displacement
- Genres
- Lives in History, Holocaust History for Teens, Judaism for Teens
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An ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War II--featuring striking black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac.
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In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture. From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.
Memory in Frames
Childhood memories and striking photographs bring a vanished Warsaw world into view.
Come here for
- A young Singer’s recollections of Warsaw’s Hasidic community
- Black-and-white photographs alongside short stories
Expect
- A personal view of life before World War II
- Tradition, poverty, and change in a world later destroyed
Where it sits
| Judaism for Teens | 69% |
|---|---|
| Lives in History | 56% |
| Holocaust History for Teens | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- European History
- Judaism for Teens
- Authors
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- May 1, 1986
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Hasidic Jewish childhood · Poverty and family life · War and forced displacement
- Reading lane
- Lives in History