An ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for
Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Day of Pleasure shares his
memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War
II--featuring striking black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac.
In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in
the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War
and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture.
From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the
ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined
to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them
flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a
world long gone but never forgotten.