Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre

Sammlung

A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's holocaust and is living in America with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive

A Love Story

Enemies

"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 easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape - from his marriage, his homeland and the last tendrils of his father's religion."--Back cover.

The Magician of Lublin

The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs of the patriarchal Meshulam Moskat and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet provide the center of the book, but its real focus is the civilization that was destroyed forever in the gas chambers of the Second World War.

A Novel

The Family Moskat

Isaac Bashevis Singer's first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow's masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre-World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer's unforgettable prose.

And Other Stories

Gimpel the Fool

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.

Satan in Goray

An aspiring young writer in Warsaw during the 1930s finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women

Shosha

The Spinoza of Market Street

Presents the struggles and triumphs of a group of people whose lives cross paths after the end of World War II in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Reprint. NYT.

Shadows on the Hudson

The Manor

Il ciarlatano

Margot Zemach

A collection of short stories which explores the humor and life of the people of Poland.

Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus

An autobiographical collection of episodes remembered by the son of a rabbi

In My Father's Court

Homeless and penniless, David Bendiner, a young Jewish writer, arrives in 1922 Warsaw--his only asset being a certificate entitling him to immigrate to Palestine--and becomes involved with three different women.

The Certificate

Muzhdah Daqīqī

Yīk mihmānī yīk raqs va dāstānʹhā-yi digar

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.

Seeking an escape from his unfaithful wife, mistress, and her greedy daughter, prosperous Joseph Shapiro journeys from America to Israel to find salvation and meaning in the traditional Jewish way of life

The Penitent

Originally published as part of Short Friday. At the death of her father, Yentl cuts her hair, dresses as a young man, and sets out to study at a yeshiva.

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