Published by Livingston, Alabama: Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama, 2021, 2021
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Leviant, Curt, 1932-. Me, mo, mu, ma & mod, or, Which will it be, me and Mazal, or Gila and me?: a true fiction. Livingston, Alabama: Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama, 2021, stated First Edition, and 654321 number line, 236pp., PAPERBACK, like new copy, LAID IN: publisher's color announcement sheet. ISBN 9781604892949.
Published by Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, 2002
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Leviant, Curt, 1932-. Ladies and gentlemen, the original music of the Hebrew alphabet, and, Weekend in Mustara: two novellas. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, 1st printing number line, vii, 156pp., very good dust-jacket, very good light blue cloth, fresh copy. Library of American fiction. - "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet is set in Budapest during the Communist era. The story focuses on a tenuous seesaw between Dr. Isaac Gantz, a musicologist, and engineer Ferdinand Friedman, a Holocaust survivor who believes that he possesses one of the greatest manuscripts of the ages, a Rosetta Stone of Judaica. Friedman is willing to share it - but there is a "but." In pursuing this prize, Gantz enters a world of strange human relationships filled with doubts and surprises. A vibrant cast of characters adds dimension to this story in which Jewish folklore, music, and history coalesce." "Weekend in Mustara" unfolds on the fictional island of Mustara in southern Europe, a mountainous, totalitarian country that tolerates Judaism. Its few Jews cling to their heritage, embodied in their beautiful but sparsely attended synagogue and their museum, where a great memorial book is inscribed with the names of all Mustara Jews martyred during World War II. A scholar of medieval Hebrew manuscripts comes to the island, searching for traces of Yehuda Halevi, the great Hebrew poet of the Spanish Golden Age. He is soon enmeshed with elusive personalities and tangled loyalties but only when he finds himself displaced in time - in a kind of theater of the absurd - are the purposes of his journey finally realized.". 9780299179502 ISBN 0299179508.