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The paper bridge, a novel, by V. J. Jerome.

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Jerome, V. J. , (Victor Jeremy), 1896-1965 [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Citadel Press, 1966.Edition: First editionDescription: 255 pages : black and white portrait of author ; 21 cmLOC classification:

PZ 3 .J484 Pap 1966

Contents:

Part I -- 1. The word -- 2. Dunce, dunce -- 3. The India-rubber ball -- 4. Hey Shlubadubdub! -- 5. Saturday walk -- 6. The Screever -- 7. Uriel Acosta -- 8. Britannia -- 9. Bar Mitzvah -- 10. House number one hundred -- 11. Letter from Vokyrts --

Part II -- 12. The try-outs -- 13. The book and the street -- 14. Master tailors -- 15. The curse of Mr. Bell -- 16. To be or not to be -- 17. Shakespeare -- 18. Sons have I nourished -- 19. The speaker from America -- 20. Sunday in the square -- 21. The paper bridge.

Summary: "For nine-year-old Jeremy Namor, arrival in the slums of London's East End marks the beginning of emergence from childhood. Removed from the familiar surroundings of the little town in Poland which many readers know from A Lantern for Jeremy, the young immigrant finds himself involved in constant battles - which an alien language; with hostile schoolmates; with the conflicting ideas that emerge from home, school, and street; and, as a consequence, with himself. Jeremy succeeds in mastering his environment, and he resolves to become more English than the English. However, he finds himself being pulled in a far different direction - by his friend Tommy and his strong commitment to the struggle for Irish independence; by his adolescent love, Naomi, the daughter of a class-conscious atheist, and by his own half-forgotten memories of his bitter life in the oppressed Polish town in which he was born." - from dust jacket. Summary: "Victor Jeremy Jerome (1896–1965) was an American communist writer and editor based in New York City. He is best remembered as a Marxist cultural essayist and as the long-time editor of The Communist, later known as Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA. He was known as the Chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, based in New York. ... in the postwar period, Congress and local governments reacted to the Cold War with investigations of communist activity. Jerome was prosecuted and convicted under the Smith Act for committing the "overt act" of conspiracy to teach and encourage overthrow of the US government through his pamphlet, "Grasp the Weapon of Culture", which he presented as a report to the Communist Party in 1950. He recommended that the Party consider art and entertainment part of its "mass work". He was indicted in 1951, together with 16 other Communist leaders, during a second wave of trials of communist leaders that took place across the country. The first trial was conducted in New York in 1947. During a nine-month trial in New York's federal Foley Square Courthouse, Jerome passed the long hours in court writing poetry and reading page proofs of his memoir, A Lantern for Jeremy." -- from Wikipedia

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	PZ 3 .J484 Pap 1966 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML21090021

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"For nine-year-old Jeremy Namor, arrival in the slums of London's East End marks the beginning of emergence from childhood. Removed from the familiar surroundings of the little town in Poland which many readers know from A Lantern for Jeremy, the young immigrant finds himself involved in constant battles - which an alien language; with hostile schoolmates; with the conflicting ideas that emerge from home, school, and street; and, as a consequence, with himself. Jeremy succeeds in mastering his environment, and he resolves to become more English than the English. However, he finds himself being pulled in a far different direction - by his friend Tommy and his strong commitment to the struggle for Irish independence; by his adolescent love, Naomi, the daughter of a class-conscious atheist, and by his own half-forgotten memories of his bitter life in the oppressed Polish town in which he was born." - from dust jacket.

"Victor Jeremy Jerome (1896–1965) was an American communist writer and editor based in New York City. He is best remembered as a Marxist cultural essayist and as the long-time editor of The Communist, later known as Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA. He was known as the Chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, based in New York. ... in the postwar period, Congress and local governments reacted to the Cold War with investigations of communist activity. Jerome was prosecuted and convicted under the Smith Act for committing the "overt act" of conspiracy to teach and encourage overthrow of the US government through his pamphlet, "Grasp the Weapon of Culture", which he presented as a report to the Communist Party in 1950. He recommended that the Party consider art and entertainment part of its "mass work". He was indicted in 1951, together with 16 other Communist leaders, during a second wave of trials of communist leaders that took place across the country. The first trial was conducted in New York in 1947. During a nine-month trial in New York's federal Foley Square Courthouse, Jerome passed the long hours in court writing poetry and reading page proofs of his memoir, A Lantern for Jeremy." -- from Wikipedia

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