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The Pawnbroker

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The Pawnbroker Information
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The Pawnbroker is a novel by Edward Lewis Wallant which tells the story of a concentration camp survivor who suffers flashbacks of his past Nazi imprisonment as he tries to cope with his daily life operating a pawn shop in dangerous Harlem. It was made...


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The Washington Post
Pawnbrokers Move Slowly To the Web
08/05/2004: 997 words, approx. 3 pages
Pawnshops seem unlikely outfits to flock to the Web, considering that most hocked items are reclaimed by their owners. But a Loudoun County entrepreneur is trying to move the pawn industry online with a new service that displays inventory from shops around the country...
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The Boston Globe
Pawnbroking's back -- bank on it
05/09/1993: 1,505 words, approx. 5 pages
MANCHESTER -- A recession that refuses to leave has prompted the return to many New Hampshire cities of the world's original form of banking, the pawnshop. In the late 1980s, the state had one or two pawnshops. Today there are at least two...
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AP-Travel Online
Russia's "Second City" Is Second to None
7/3/2006: 1,271 words, approx. 4 pages
Glorious on one block, dismal on the next _ St. Petersburg is a chalice holding the extremes of Russia's history. For an outsider trying to grasp Russia's sweep and complexities in a short...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Leonard J. Leff
10,034 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Leff outlines the adaptive and production history of Edward Lewis Wallant's The Pawnbroker, calling it the foundation for such films as Schindler's List and various other pictures dealing with the Holocaust.


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