Kith and Kin

Kaminski, Andre; Zohn, Harry (translator)

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ISBN 10: 0880641045 ISBN 13: 9780880641043

Published by Fromm International Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1995

Language: English

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Title

Kith and Kin

Publisher

Fromm International Publishing Corporation, New York, NY

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0880641045

ISBN 13

9780880641043

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First US Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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Very Good

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NY 1988 first US edition. Fromm. Translated by Harry Zohn. Hardcover octavo. 311p. "Vibrant and witty" novel about two Jewish fmailies in Austro-Hungarian empire. Fine in very Near Fine dj (dj is faintly rubbed) . ISBN 0880641045.

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This amusing family chronicle, actually a memoir thinly disguised as fiction, begins with the marriage of Kaminski's maternal grandparents and ends with his own birth in 1923. The foibles of Leo Rosenbach and his shrewish wife are ironically and unsparingly portrayed; Malva, their daughter, an independent girl with socialist leanings who becomes one of the first women Viennese pharmacists, fares better. On the author's paternal side, wealthy Polish manufacturer Yankel Kaminski disowns his 11 sons for revolutionary activities, allowing them to be deported to Siberia. The brothers escape to America and become the first Jewish soccer team. Hershele, the author's father, returns to Europe intending to take part in the Russian Revolution but meets and marries Malva instead. Thus the two families are joined. Kaminski's broad humor and affectionately drawn portraits of his socialist parents make this a lively narrative. A bestseller in Europe, this first novel is as much a reflection on the Jewish diaspora as on the author's own family history.
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