Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket.

Stanley Elkin's engrossing novel, the Rabbi of Lud, centers on the life and times of Yisrael Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism. Spanning more than two centuries, the novel tells the story of the young Baal Shem Tov's passionate search for meaning in a world that seems to be spinning out of control, and of the many disciples who followed him along the way. From the court of the Czars to the shtetls of Eastern Europe, from the mystical Kabbalah to the brutality of the Holocaust, The Rabbi of Lud explores the eternal questions that define human existence.; 8vo; 278 pages; $7.00.

Price: $40.00