books by Isaac Bashevis Singer

books by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988

brilliant evocation of a unique moment, yet with universal dilemmas
This is a beautiful, spare book about a great, forbidden passion, in which two cultures clash with tragic and yet strangely uplifting results. The Slave is Jacob, a survivor of unspeakable horrors in the 1648 Polish revolution - having lost his entire family and ...

Enemies, A Love Story

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988

Nobel Prize Winners are few and far between
There are reasons that Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and all of these reasons are apparent in ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY. Though he is not the only Jewish author to have won the Nobel, he is the only author whose primary writing was in ...

Satan in Goray: A Novel

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Literature as Anthropology
When times are desperate as they have been in many eras and many places, people tend to resort to desperate measures. They cast their lot with prophets, dreamers, and seers who foretell a bright future--the coming of the millenium, it is often called----when all ...

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Michael Di Capua, 2001

Fool's paradise
If your children love either Isaac Singer or Chelm, look no further than these seven tales. They will treasure the book always, because, as Singer noted in the Foreword to this 1966 volume, "In stories time does not vanish. Neither do men and animals. For the writer ...

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983

Magnificent and Masterful, Spirited and Profound
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a master storyteller and any reader will be well-rewarded for spending time with his "Collected Stories." Many of these stories are set in Poland before World War II or post-war New York City, but there is a spiritual energy that drives all ...

The Family Moskat: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

One of his best
Back in the 70s I read whatever was available by Singer. This was one of the first, and my favorite. I love long, involved stories with lots of characters. I don't remember much about any of his stories because it's been over 20 years since I read them, but I ...

Why Noah Chose the Dove (Sunburst Book)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1987

"Why are you silent?" Noah asked the dove.
When the people of the world sinned, and God chose the only righteous man, Noah, to build an ark, all of the animals gathered around. They, however, believed that Noah would only pick best of all the living creatures. The animals began to boast and argue amongst each ...

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1986

Grandfather telling stories...
To enjoy listening to stories told by grandfather, you don't necessarily have to be a child! As a matter of fact, it is a life virtue to enjoy these stories told by Isaac Bashevis Singer, regardless of age. They are set in the now vanished Hassidic community of ...

Stories for Children

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1985

Just as magical as the Harry Potter books!
Over the years I've read this book to my daughter several times. As most children, she has her favorites and never tires of those. You've got demons and witches and holy men who fight evil. You've got moral lessons that teach without preaching. All written with ...

In My Father's Court

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991

A book full of loving details
Observing through the eyes of a young child we are led through life in the jewish community of Warshaw. Many different figures appear in the house of the boy's father, the rabbi, to ask for his advice and judgement, decisions in religious or worldly matters. Behind all ...

Yentyl the Yeshiva Boy

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983

Transgender -- Yes! But with outdated reasons....
Regarding the debate here about whether Yentl was a feminist or a transsexual, I weigh in on the transgender side -- for all the reasons other reviewers have already listed here, and which I have also discussed on my Hasidism FAQ website. So I won't reinvent the wheel ...

Shosha: A Novel

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Shosha will never be written again.
Several years ago while I was a student at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts I had the good fortune to hear Dr. Yehuda Bauer, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the shtetl. This is a vanished world that few scholars can discuss any longer and one of its ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Library of America, 2004

Stories of Love, Wonder, and Joy
These stories are filled with hope, love, and a sense of belonging to family and to the world. They are theological but never heavy-handed; they are luminous. Singer writes with humor, gentleness, and a fine sense of the deeper realities of life: the depth of ...

Meshugah

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

Another Singer Classic
I first read "The Slave" and fell in love with Singer's simple yet vivid story telling. Meshugah did not disappoint. I enjoyed reading about three colorful characters (Polish refugees) involved in a bizarre love triangle. Meshugah gives great insight on life after the ...

Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Nowhere plans for nobody
"Shadows on the Hudson" is an excellent novel, even better than Singer's similiar but more compact "Enemies, a Love Story". Few writers have ever been able to involve the reader in the inner lives of fictional characters the way Singer could, and fewer still would have ...