Journey Through a Small Planet

Informationen zum Autor Emanuel Litvinoff (born 1915) is a British writer and human rights activist, and is one of the most well-known and regarded figures in post-war Anglo-Jewish literature. Klappentext Emanuel Litvinoff (born 1915) is a British writer and human rights activist, and is one of the most well-known and regarded figures in post-war Anglo-Jewish literature. Zusammenfassung Recalls the author's working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London. This book describes the overcrowded tenements of Brick Lane and Whitechapel, the smell of pickled herring and onion bread, the rattle of sewing machines and chatter in Yiddish. It also relates stories of his parents, who fled from Russia in 1914.

Product details

• Authors: Emanuel Litvinoff, Litvinoff Emanuel, Patrick Wright
• Assisted by: Patrick Wright (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780141189307
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118930-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; London, Greater London, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / General, Nostalgia: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs