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The island on Bird Street / Uri Orlev ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: PZ7.O633 I7 1984

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Summary: During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Uniform Title: I bi-Reḥov ha-tsiporim. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Orlev, Uri, 1931-2022.
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984
©1983
Locale: Poland
Notes: Translation of: ha-I bi-Reḥov ha-tsiporim.

Physical Details

Language: English
External Link: Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by Internet Archive
ISBN: 0395338875
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available online.
Physical Description: xi, 162 pages ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction. Jews--Poland--Fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Fiction. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction. Fiction.

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