Magician of Lublin

Description:

Half Jewish, half gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. For Yasha is an escape artist, not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women.

subjects: Fiction,  Jews in fiction,  Jews,  Literatura norte-americana,  Romance,  Jews, fiction,  Poland, fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

Places: Poland,  Lublin (Poland)

Times: mid 1880s in a Russian ruled Poland