The Book of Paradise : The Marvellous Life Story of Samuel Abba Strewth by Itzik, Peckerar, Robert Adler Manger

The Book of Paradise : The Marvellous Life Story of Samuel Abba Strewth by Itzik, Peckerar, Robert Adler MangerThe raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translationOn being expelled from Paradise, young Samuel Abba pulls a crafty trick, managing to arrive on earth with his memory intact. He quickly begins regaling the humans around him with mischievous stories of a Paradise far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the same divisions and temptations that

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