Marbleized Boards with maroon spine, Hardcover, 611 pages, 8 1/4" tall. Inside pages clean. Binding is tight.The vanished civilization of the Eastern European Jews is the subject of this magnificent modern novel. Ostensibly, it is the story of the patriarchal Meshulum Moskat and his numerous progeny and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet, fighting, quarreling, loving, scheming in the teeming ghetto of Warsaw, but its real hero is the civilization that vanished into the gas chambers. translated from the Yiddish by A. H. Gross.