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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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…
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…
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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…
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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"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…
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.
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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…
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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien.
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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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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…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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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
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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.
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First published in in Poland in 1966 under the title ‘Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe.
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…
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.
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…
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…
Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer –Cover.
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…
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…
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…
Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.
Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner’s spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his…
The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by…
It is 1906. The death of his 17-year-old son has disrupted the life of Max Barabander in Buenos Aires, sending him back to his roots in Warsaw. Having attained wealth…
Translated from the Yiddish … by the author –T.p. verso.
Nobel Prize-winner Singer’s 10th collection of short stories demonstrates the same vigor that he has shown throughout his long career (New York Times) and reaffirms his place as an extremely…
From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author’s life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son…
A collection of forty-seven short stories such as Taibele and Her Demon The Unseen , Gimpel the Fool and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy .
Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author’s childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
Original publication and copyright date: 1966.
Tells the stories of four sisters who mixed up their feet in bed one night, the first shlemiel, and the famous and foolish seven Elders of Chelm.
Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful…
