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050 00 $aPS3562.E8883$bL48 2002
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100 1 $aLeviant, Curt.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79062779
245 10 $aLadies and gentlemen, the original music of the Hebrew alphabet ;$band Weekend in Mustara : two novellas /$cCurt Leviant.
246 3 $aLadies and gentlemen, the original music of the Hebrew alphabet ; and Weekend in Mustara
260 $aMadison, Wis. :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $avii, 156 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLibrary of American fiction
520 1 $a""Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is set in Budapest during the Communist era. The story focuses on a tenuous seesaw between Dr. Isaac Gantz, a musicologist, and engineer Ferdinand Friedman, a Holocaust survivor who believes that he possesses one of the greatest manuscripts of the ages, a Rosetta Stone of Judaica.
520 8 $aFriedman is willing to share it - but there is a "but." In pursuing this prize, Gantz enters a world of strange human relationships filled with doubts and surprises. A vibrant cast of characters adds dimension to this story in which Jewish folklore, music, and history coalesce.".
520 8 $a""Weekend in Mustara" unfolds on the fictional island of Mustara in southern Europe, a mountainous, totalitarian country that tolerates Judaism. Its few Jews cling to their heritage, embodied in their beautiful but sparsely attended synagogue and their museum, where a great memorial book is inscribed with the names of all Mustara Jews martyred during World War II.
520 8 $aA scholar of medieval Hebrew manuscripts comes to the island, searching for traces of Yehuda Halevi, the great Hebrew poet of the Spanish Golden Age. He is soon enmeshed with elusive personalities and tangled loyalties but only when he finds himself displaced in time - in a kind of theater of the absurd - are the purposes of his journey finally realized."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aManuscripts, Hebrew$vFiction.
650 0 $aHolocaust survivors$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105719
651 0 $aBudapest (Hungary)$vFiction.
650 0 $aJews$zEurope$vFiction.
650 0 $aMusicologists$vFiction.
650 0 $aIslands$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104288
651 0 $aEurope$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114931
655 0 $aJewish fiction.
700 12 $aLeviant, Curt.$tWeekend in Mustara.
740 02 $aWeekend in Mustara.
830 0 $aLibrary of American fiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002028774
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3562.E8883$iL48 2002