Isaac Jacob Blumenfeld grows up in Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he is a boy, is part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and then the Soviets again. Isaac survives the absurdity and horror in …
THIS NOVEL IS THE SAGA IN FIVE PARTS OF ISAAC JACOB Blumenfeld, who grows up in Kolodetz, a small town near Lvov, which, when he is a boy, is part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but which subsequently belongs to Poland, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and then the Soviets again…
Surviving the trials and tribulations of the twentieth century by masquerading as a fool, Isaac Jacob Blumenthal grows up in Kolodetz, a small-town near Lvov, as he endures concentration camps, a Siberian gulag, two world wars, and the subsequent rule of the Austro-Hungarian Emp…