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From the Old Marketplace - A Memoir of Laughter, Survival, & Coming of Age in Eastern Europe (Paper)

From the Old Marketplace - A Memoir of Laughter, Survival, & Coming of Age in Eastern Europe (Paper)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Documentation of a period which saw Europe and the Western world altered for ever. In the streets of Vilnius, just before and during the First World War, actor Joseph Buloff grew up, learning the arts essential for survival under successive occupations by Cossacks, Germans, Bolsheviks and Poles.

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Harvard University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780674325043
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 344
Weight: 444g
Height: 220mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 21mm