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…
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