Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. — 288 p. As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. — 288 p. As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.
Penguin Books, 1992. — 201 p. A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and a way of life.
Penguin Modern Classics, 2011. — 485 p. Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural "Taibele and Her Demon" to the poignant "The Unseen", and from gentle humour in "Gimpel the Fool"...
Penguin Modern Classics, 2011. — 485 p. Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural "Taibele and Her Demon" to the poignant "The Unseen", and from gentle humour in "Gimpel the Fool"...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 96 p. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 96 p. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust...
Fawcett, 1981. — 256 p. Singer's second collection of stories, eleven in all, including the title story, "A Tale of Two Liars", and "The Destruction of Kreshev."
Fawcett, 1981. — 256 p. Singer's second collection of stories, eleven in all, including the title story, "A Tale of Two Liars", and "The Destruction of Kreshev."
New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1988. — 320 p. Singer's people shimmer with life, alive in worlds within worlds. And their creator can take you into each of those worlds on a journey only a true magician can make possible.
Translated from Yiddish by Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shub. — New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. First published 1972. — 280 p. Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who had hidden him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife,...
New York: The Noonday Press. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First edition, 1957. Seventeenth printing, 1991. – 206 p. Gimpel the Fool; The Gentleman from Cracow; The Wife Killer; By The Light of Memorial; Candles; The Mirror; The Little Shoemakers; Joy; From The Diary of One Not Born; The Old Man; Fire; The Unseen. Isaac Bashevis Singer, the great Yiddish fiction writer and a...
Translated from Yiddish by Joseph Singer. Edited by Rachel MacKenzie and Robert Giroux. — New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. — 278 p. Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the...
New York: A Plume Book, 1989. — 244 p. Singer in his novel The King of the Fields, written in 1988, just three years before his death, examines religions (Christian, pagan, Jewish), myth, male-female relationships, sex, politics, and man, through a purported history of pre-medieval Poland. The novel is basically an existential examination of man and his beliefs positioned in a...
New York: A Plume Book, 1989. — 244 p. Singer in his novel The King of the Fields, written in 1988, just three years before his death, examines religions (Christian, pagan, Jewish), myth, male-female relationships, sex, politics, and man, through a purported history of pre-medieval Poland. The novel is basically an existential examination of man and his beliefs positioned in a...
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