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A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780374327415
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Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer
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