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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches…
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Between 1946 and 1955 Isaac Bashevis Singer underwent a total transformation. During the post-Holocaust period Singer reappraised everything he knew, questioned all his assumptions, and rebuilt his artistic vision. This…
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During the post-Holocaust period, Isaac Bashevis Singer's artistic vision underwent a total transformation. Writing for the Yiddish daily Forverts in New York, with the Cold War and McCarthyism gripping American…
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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien.
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Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love…
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Tells the story of the prosperous Moskat family, Polish Jews living in Warsaw between the dawn of the 20th century and the gloom of 1939. Characters in this novel include…
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Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author’s childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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First published in in Poland in 1966 under the title ‘Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe.
Presents the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. This title offers an examination of the nature…
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Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who grew up in a strictly Orthodox Hasidic household in Poland, presents a version of the legend surrounding the 18th century founder of Hasidism…
THE CAFETERIA, Based on the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer Adapted by Rhys Adrian
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Based on Singer's short story, "The Cafeteria," which first appeared in English…
"Miracles and visitations abound in the world Singer portrays, a world in which love triumphs over time and tribulation, and faith prevails. Each story is invested with the mystical spirit…
Traces the lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its centre is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman whose greatest trial…
This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.
Janet Hadda
Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and…
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Dr Ruth Dorot
Draws a comparison between two Jewish artists of the twentieth-century: Polish-born magician story-teller Isaac Bashevis-Singer (1904-1991) and Russian-born creator of visual magic Marc Chagall (1887-1985).
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This volume presents a bibliographical history of Nobel Prize Winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, and traces the issues which have become most important in discussions of Singer’s work, including the controversy…
Patricia Spaeth, Isaac Bashevis Singer
ZLATEH THE GOAT A play in two acts based on the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer Adapted for the stage by Patricia Spaeth 9 characters, doubling permitted
This play adaption…
Frederic Prokosch
First published in 1968, The Missolonghi Manuscript takes on the ambitious-some may say impossible-literary experiment of portraying the last three months of Lord Byron's life in Missolonghi, Greece, where he…
From the Nobel Prizewinning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays
Old Truths and New Clichs collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer…
Bruce Davidson
In 1973, Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer collaborated with New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson for a surreal film, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard…
Dvorah M. Telushkin
A poignant and affectionate view of the life and work of the brilliant but troubled Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer explores the later years of Singer’s life from the perspective…
Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Mirror was written for the Yale Repertory Theater production in 1972-1973. Set in a shtetl in Poland, the play is based on Singer's 1955 story of…
THE JOKE: Based on the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Adapted by Rhys Adrian 10 characters, doubling permitted
Based on Singer's short story, "The Joke," which first appeared in English…
A collection that explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as ‘in love the young are just beginners and the…
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It is 1906. The death of his seventeen-year-old son, Arturo, has disrupted the life of Max Barabander in Buenos Aires, sending him back to his roots in Warsaw.
The Manor and The Estate - combined in this one-volume edition - are bold tales of Polish Jews in the latter half of the 19th century, a time of rapid…
Presents an edition of the author’s six stories.
Cuandolei por vez primera Gimpel, el tonto tuve la certeza de estar frente a unrelato profundamente ingenioso y hermoso, que me permitia adentrarme en todaslas capas de…
The pogrom that swept through Poland was interpreted as a sign of the Coming of the Lord. In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder and famine, grief…
One of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s most iconic books, In My Father’s Court is a poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father.
Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as Zlateh the Goat , Mazel and Shlimazel , and The Fools of Chelm and the…
In his classic followup to his debut story collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to introduce readers to his unique brand of fiction in eleven…
A collection of stories, that weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety and compassion humanity at its most mundane and mysterious. It features tales that span…
First published as Short Friday and Other Stories, Singer’s 1965 collection presents a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader in a rich sensory experience of both bygone…
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The narrator of this story, Aaron Greidinger, is a writer just beginning to receive recognition. He finds himself involved with a group of refugees after Max Aberdam of Warsaw, a…
In this masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety and compassion humanity at its most mundane and…
Set in 1926, this is the story of 19-year-old David Bendiger. Having lived through the Russo-Japanese war, World War I, the 1917 revolutions and Polish-Soviet war, David feels old before…
First published in 1957 by Noonday Press, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim. The title story follows…
