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Against the backdrop of Czar Nicholas I's reign, when more than fifty thousand Jewish boys were forcibly conscripted into military service, twelve-year-old Mendel Cholinsky escapes to America.
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In mid-nineteenth century Russia, Mendel Cholinsky, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, tries to escape to America to avoid being taken into the Czar's army for twenty-five years of military service.
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The Circlemaker
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Penguin Young Readers Group, 1994
ISBN 10: 0803713541
ISBN 13: 9780803713543
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The Circlemaker
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Dial Books for Young Readers, 1994
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G. Illustrated by Herbert Tauss (illustrator). First Edition. 179 pages. NOT an ex-library. The story is about Mendel , aged 12 , when in 1852 Czar Nicholas's soldiers come through his small Ukrainian town looking for Jewish conscripts. He runs aways and joins freedom fighters. Mendel's devout father taught him that "only the closed circle can keep us whole. ". Seller Inventory # 7163
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