# The Magician of Lublin

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/israel-joshua-singer/the-magician-of-lublin

![The Magician of Lublin](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/isaac-bashevis-singer/the-magician-of-lublin_978-01-4119-760-9.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2013%3A26%3A38)

- Authors: [Isaac Bashevis Singer](https://www.bookquiver.com/israel-joshua-singer)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-05-03

## Description

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion. Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s, Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel is a haunting psychological portrait of a man's flight from love. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

## Editions

### The Magician of Lublin

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-760-9
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2012-05-03
- Language: en_GB