{"product_id":"a-day-of-pleasure-stories-of-a-boy-growing-up-in-warsaw","title":"A Day of Pleasure : Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Day of Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nIn 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.\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system,'system-ui','San Francisco','Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1rem; color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system,'system-ui','San Francisco','Segoe UI',Roboto,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished: USA, 1986\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguages: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 227\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 13: 9780374416966\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 10: 0374416966\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Isaac Bashevis Singer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44709223006474,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780374416966.jpg?v=1694166419","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/a-day-of-pleasure-stories-of-a-boy-growing-up-in-warsaw","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}