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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Yid
  name:
    name part: Goldberg, Paul
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Humorous fiction.
  genre: Historical fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 307 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin's death, his final pogrom, "one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin," is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the night to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater. But Levinson, though an old man, is a veteran of past wars, and his shocking response to the intruders sets in motion a series of events both zany and deadly as he proceeds to assemble a ragtag group to help him enact a mad-brilliant plot, the assassination of a tyrant. Levinson's cast of unlikely heroes includes Aleksandr Kogan, a machine-gunner in Levinson's Red Army band who has since become one of Moscow's premier surgeons, Frederick Lewis, an African American who came to the USSR to build smelters and stayed to work as an engineer, learning Russian, Esperanto and Yiddish and Kima Petrova, an enigmatic young woman with a score to settle. While the setting is Soviet Russia, the backdrop is Shakespeare. A mad king has a diabolical plan to exterminate and deport his country's remaining Jews. And wandering through the narrative, like a crazy Soviet Ragtime, are such historical figures as Paul Robeson, Solomon Mikhoels and Marc Chagall. As hilarious as it is moving, as intellectual as it is violent, with echoes of Inglourious Basterds and Seven Samurai, this is a tragicomic masterpiece of historical fiction.
  note: Paul Goldberg.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Historical
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Jewish
  classification: PS3607.O4434 Y53 2016
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781250079039
  identifier: 1250079039
  identifier: 9781250079046
  identifier: 2015029503
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150803
    record change date: 20170928112534.0
    record identifier: in00003612553