1st English edition. Original Cloth in dust jacket. 8vo. 265 pages. 22 cm. Translation of Di 'agune. Translated from the Yiddish and with an introduction by Curt Leviant. "Di Agune ('The Abandoned Wife, ' 1961; Heb. Trans. 1962; Eng. Trans. 1974) , depicts all segments of Jewish Vilna between the wars. " - EJ 2008. "Grade's novel Di agune (1961; The Agunah) concerns an Orthodox woman whose husband is missing in action in wartime and who, according to Orthodox Jewish law, is forbidden to remarry, lest she enter into an adulterous union. " - Encyclopedia Brittanica. Subjects: Yiddish fiction - Translations into English. Yiddish fiction. Translations. Bookplate and owners stamp on title page. Tape repair to lower margin of front end paper; tiny tear to half title; in Very Good Dust Jacket. A very nice copy. (YID-21-54A)