Souls on Fire : Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters

Translated into English from the original French by Marion Wiesel. First English edition (previously published in French, 1972). 268pp publish biographical table and publisher’s note at rear. Illustrated endpapers. Publisher’s library copy, with Weidenfeld stamp on front free endpaper. Black cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine (very slightly rounded on corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, now protected in a mylar wrapper, with the slightly hint of bumping along lower edge and tiny chip on verso. Elie Wiesel reveals the tales of his childhood growing up in the world of Hasidim, a sect of mystics in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe in the early part of the 20th century.