A classic of Canadian Jewish literature for over fifty years This new edition of a classic Canadian Jewish novel tells the story of Jacob Grossman, a middle-aged immigrant tailor who travels from Toronto to pre-World War Two Europe. The novel's action opens in 1935, with a striking portrait of Toronto's working-class Spadina Avenue district. Kreisel's narrative leap of genius is his depiction of Grossman's decision to return to reacquaint himself with his family and his boyhood home of Vienna. Wearing a new white suit ...
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A classic of Canadian Jewish literature for over fifty years This new edition of a classic Canadian Jewish novel tells the story of Jacob Grossman, a middle-aged immigrant tailor who travels from Toronto to pre-World War Two Europe. The novel's action opens in 1935, with a striking portrait of Toronto's working-class Spadina Avenue district. Kreisel's narrative leap of genius is his depiction of Grossman's decision to return to reacquaint himself with his family and his boyhood home of Vienna. Wearing a new white suit, an extravagance bought especially for the trip, he is mistaken for a rich man, and the charade he undertakes to maintain this image complicates an already difficult visit. Grossman finds Vienna transformed by the rise of Nazism and the slow, inexorable deterioration of Austria's prominent Jewish community. Kreisel's insights into the forces that would lead the world to war are uniquely revealing. His portrait of prewar Jewish life in Europe and Canada helps us better understand the oncoming Holocaust. Henry Kreisel's The Rich Man was among the first books by a Jewish writer on Jewish themes to be published in Canada. With a new introduction by the Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University and editor of Red Deer's Canadian Jewish writing
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Add this copy of The Rich Man to cart. $19.95, very good condition, Sold by THE OREGON ROOM rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by McClelland and Stewart.
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Very Good. 1948 McClelland, Toronto, author's first book, different cover than Heineman cover amazon shows, VG+/VG DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has nicks & tears at spine ends & spine edges, tiny nicks at corners, in new Mylar, no markings found, firm corners, front board has very small stain near top corner.
Add this copy of The Rich Man to cart. $22.75, very good condition, Sold by THE OREGON ROOM rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Phoenix, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by McClelland and Stewart.
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Very Good. 1948 McClelland, Toronto, author's first book, different cover than Heineman cover amazon shows, VG+/VG+ DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has tiny pinhole at head of spine, very mild shelfwear-in new Mylar, previous owner's short inscription on endpaper is only marking found, firm corners.
Add this copy of The Rich Man (a Novel) to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Gils Book Loft rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1948 by McClelland and Stewart.
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Add this copy of Rich Man (Canadian Jewish Studies) to cart. $47.58, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Red Deer Press.
