A COAT OF MANY COLOURS

Raphael, Chaim

ISBN 10: 070112413X / ISBN 13: 9780701124137

Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1979

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240 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj by John Woodcock. The Contents are: ROOTS: The Zeppelin; The Raphaels of Vilkomir; The Ancient Memory. THE LITVAK CONNECTION: The Gaon of Vilna; A Jew from Pinsk. GOLDEN LANDS: Jerusalem U.S.A.; England in Style. ADDING IT UP: Seventy Years On; Jesus; How Faithful. THREE JEWS AT LARGE: Akiba Recovered; Born in Berlin; An Englishman Forever. And ENVOI: Joseph; followed by acknowledgment, notes, a glossary and an index. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A COAT OF MANY COLOURS
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus, London
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 070112413X
• ISBN 13: 9780701124137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: John Woodcock
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A uniquely Jewish memoir from someone who was a British civil servant, academic, and author. Chapters cover his early childhood recollections of World War I, folk memory and Lithuanian tradition, early Zionism, American Jews, the Holocaust, the state of Israel, and lots of topics in between. Part history, part autobiography, told with "... a stylish erudition and characteristic wit and irony that mark this book as a lively portrayal of what it means to be a Jew."