Isaac Bashevis Singer

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1632922142

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The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

Set in seventeenth-century Poland, The Slave tells the story of Jacob, a young Talmudic scholar sold into slavery after the Chmielnicki massacres - and who falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a wife who is not Jewish, and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Jewish fiction
ISBN : 0374514895

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An Isaac Bashevis Singer Reader by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1632921936

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Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

Isaac Bashevis Singer is known for his mastery of storytelling - but it was not until 1966, at the age of sixty-two, that he published his first children's book, Zlateh the Goat, a Newbery Honor Book and instant classic. Singer went on to write many stories for children, most of which are included in this volume, along with a brief introduction and a special epilogue, "Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?" The collection presents exuberant and timeless tales for children rich in fantasy and deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. A number of the stories appear in book form for the first time - and all have been translated from the Yiddish with the author's personal supervision.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aged
ISBN : 0099286467

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Old Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

This classic collection 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 art of loving matures with age and experience". Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 0299206203

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Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

In 1973, the Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer collaborated with New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson to make a surreal film, Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard. This film was at once a documentary about Singer's New York and a dramatization of one of his short stories. The film grew out of the pair's friendship as residents of the same building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and their common interest in New York City street life. During and after production, Davidson made numerous portraits of Singer and also returned to the Lower East Side for a documentary series of photographs. A selection of these stunning images made between 1957 and 1990 is available here for the first time. and white portfolio known as The Garden Cafeteria, and selections from Davidson's Lower East Side series. The Garden Cafeteria was a collaboration depicting denizens of the East Broadway restaurant frequented by Singer during his trips to The Jewish Daily Forward. The portfolio has never before been published nor exhibited in its entirety. Included is an introduction by Singer himself on Davidson's images; an indepth interview with Davidson about his art, aesthetic and political views, and his Jewishness; and a reflective, contextual essay by Ilan Stavans on this collaboration between the writer and the photographer. Through Davidson's lens we see Singer's literary world of Holocaust survivors and emigres from Eastern Europe - a displaced culture in its twilight.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141970868

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Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. 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 and a passport to America. But as the Nazis threaten to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood sweetheart - still living on Krochmalna Street, still strangely childlike - who has been waiting for him all these years. In the face of unimaginable horror, he chooses to stay... One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, Shosha is an unforgettable novel about conflicted desires, lost lives and the redemption of one man.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241350423

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Love and Exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. In A Little Boy in Search of God, he remembers his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy and cabbala. Later, the pursuit of women came to obsess him almost as much as the pursuit of knowledge, and in A Young Man in Search of Love he chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs. When he emigrated to the United States from Poland on the eve of the Second World War loneliness and depression overwhelmed him, and he relives those dark years in Lost in America. From beginning to end, Love and Exile sheds new light on Singer's own life and the fictional lives mirrored in it.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Authors, Yiddish
ISBN : 0099422662

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In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

"In this autobiographical work, specifically mentioned in Issac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Prize citation, Singer remembers his childhood in Warsaw, and especially the bet din, or Jewish Court, in his father's home on working-class Krochmalna Street. Advice seekers and petitioners making wills or seeking marriage settlements daily visit the rabbi in his study. In a world on the brink of modernity, Singer's gentle, learned father and his mother, equally pious but eminently practical, maintain a stubbornly traditional existence. In My Father's Court is a tribute to their efforts, and a fine evocation of life in early-twentieth century Warsaw."

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241260692

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The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

'He scampered over rooftops, swam in deep water, leapt from balconies.' Set in the vanished world of the shtetl of nineteenth-century eastern Europe, this spellbinding fable tells the story of Yasha: magician, mesmerist, juggler, sword swallower, master of escape - and breaker of hearts.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241350478

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The Penitent by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

A powerful story about a man's discovery of faith and identity after his escape from Nazi persecution in Poland, new to Penguin Modern Classics From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish faith. Following his journey as he flees Nazi persecution in Poland in 1939, through wealth and a failed marriage in New York, and on to Israel, it charts his transformation from worldly confusion to spiritual certainty in orthodox Judaism. This powerful work is an examination of the nature of faith, the question of identity and the notion of how to lead a good life.

Author : Seth L. Wolitz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292757905

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The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer by Seth L. Wolitz Pdf

Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, 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. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel Yarme and Keyle.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374508326

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The Seance and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374531226

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Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, "Shadows on the Hudson" traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037684615

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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool," in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

Author : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780691217635

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Old Truths and New Clichés by Isaac Bashevis Singer Pdf

A collection of eighteen essays that represent Singer's fullest treatment of topics he engaged with throughout his life. Most of the selected essays were originally published in Yiddish or delivered as lectures but have never been published in English before