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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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A collection of forty-seven short stories such as Taibele and Her Demon The Unseen , Gimpel the Fool and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy .
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Jewish hypnotist and acrobat mingles with all classes in 19th-century Poland, but is accepted by none. An account of an exceptional individual’s struggle with evil.
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips…
Original publication and copyright date: 1966.
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This volume includes a collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer's early work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, and a range of critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews.
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The first in a three-volume series, featuring twenty-five carefully curated essays (selected from over 150) written from just before the start of World War II through to its immediate aftermath…
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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…
Eight tales-one for each night of Hanukkah-demonstrating the inventive storytelling powers of Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Miracles and visitations abound in the world Singer portrays, a world in…
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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Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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…
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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien.
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…
From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays
Old Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer…
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…
Translated from the Yiddish … by the author –T.p. verso.
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…
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…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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First published in in Poland in 1966 under the title ‘Sonim, di Geshichte fun a Liebe.
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…
Presents an edition of the author’s six stories.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
In this autobiographical work, the author remembers his childhood in Warsaw, and especially the bet din , or Jewish Court, in his father’s home on working-class Krochmalna Street. In a…
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.
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 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…
Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author’s childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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…
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…
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…
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…
