Author: Florence Noiville
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is widely recognized as the most popular Yiddish writer of the twentieth century. His translated body of work, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, is beloved around the world. But although Singer was a very public and outgoing figure, much about his personal life remains unknown. In Isaac Bashevis Singer, Florence Noiville offers a glimpse into the world of this much-beloved but persistently elusive figure. An astonishingly prolific writer, Singer was able to recreate the lost world of Jewish Eastern Europe and also to describe the immigrant experience in America. Drawing heavily upon folklore, Singer's work is noted for its mystical strain. But he was also heavily concerned with the problems of his own day, and through his novels and stories runs a strong undercurrent of social consciousness. Unafraid to celebrate peasant life, Singer was often accused of being vulgar, yet he was also recognized for a deeply moral sensibility. And much like his work, Singer's personal life was marked by contradiction: the son of a Rabbi, he struggled with warring currents of devotion and doubt. Solicitous of affection, he was also known for his philandering. Devoted to the notion of family, he abandoned his own son before the Second World War. Drawing on letters, personal recollections, and interviews with Singer's friends, family, and publishing contemporaries, Florence Noiville speaks to these paradoxes. More appreciation than comprehensive biography, her narrative is rich in detail about the people, places, and ideas that shaped Singer's world. A remarkably vivid portrait of the man and his work emerges—a compassionate, vivid, and insightful vision of one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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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: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374506803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374524807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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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 chance at riches and a passport to America. But as he and the rest of the Writers' Club wait in horror for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood love-still living on Krochmalna Street, still mysteriously childlike herself-who has been waiting for him all these years.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632921932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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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: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374505926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374516480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: Tim Weiner
Publisher: NY Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
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Presents the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, detailing how the bureau has been used to conduct political warfare, and how it became the most powerful intelligence service in the United States.
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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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: Leah Napolin
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573618420
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Tells the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a boy so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law after her father dies.
