Hostages: The Personal Testimony of a Soviet Jew
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American Edition. First? Printing. 305, footnotes, DJ worn, soiled, tears, and chips, front board weak (strengthened with glue). Life of Grigory Svirsky and his wife, Pauline, Soviet Jews during World War II. He tells the truth of the cruelties involved, torture, imprisonment and suffering until they were allowed to emigrate to Israel. He begins his Preface by saying "To An Edition I Never Expected To See Published. " Condition: fair, fair.
Keywords: Anti-Semitism, Discrimination, Censorship, Writers' Union, Emigration, Israel, Novelist, Scriptwriter, Soviet Jewry
ISBN: 0394493680
[Book #43857]
Price: $30.00
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