![]() ![]() However, neither he nor Emilia has the money to make their plans possible. He would need to convert to Christianity, and divorce Esther to make the marriage possible. During this visit, he proposes to Emilia, and they agree to move to Italy. When they arrive at Warsaw, Yasha also visits Emilia and her daughter Halina. Yasha and Magda travel to Warsaw to perform on the stage. ![]() He has affairs with his assistant Magda, with a young Jewish woman in Piaski named Zeftel and with a middle class Catholic widow in Warsaw named Emilia. ![]() He is Jewish, but not very devout, and married to Esther. The main character Yasha Mazur is a magician from Lublin, who travels around Poland to perform before audiences. The story is set in the mid-1880s in Russian-ruled Poland. The book was republished by Pocket Penguins in 2016. In 1971, the book was published in Yiddish by Hamenorah. Though originally written in Yiddish, it was first published in English in 1960 in the United States by Noonday, and in 1961 in the United Kingdom by Secker & Warburg. The Magician of Lublin ( Yiddish: דער קונצנמאַכער פֿון לובלין, romanized: Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin) is a novel by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. ![]()
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