Konrad Bercovici
Author
Language
English
Description
With this book, first published in 1928, Romanian-born American author Konrad Bercovici has written a sympathetic, thorough, and fascinating account of an extra-ordinary people. Long an admirer of the Gypsies, he was determined to penetrate their mysteries. He listened to their legends, traced their history, and here presents all that he knows and could learn from others about their origins, customs and lives down through the centuries and throughout...
Author
Publisher
Boni and Liveright
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Konrad Bercovici (1882-1961) was a Romanian-American writer. Once his career as an author took off, Bercovici frequented the Hotel Algonquin in New York.
His writing success afforded Bercovici travels from which he produced well-received examinations of Ethnic immigrants making their homes throughout the United States. In his work Around the World in New York he devotes a chapter, titled "Spain", to the Spanish corner of the city, called
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