Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0241260698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'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.
The Magician of Lublin
Shadows on the Hudson
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
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.
Shosha
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374524807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374524807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
The Slave
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374506803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374506803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
Networking Magic
Author: Rick Frishman
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614487340
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The goal is to create real connections that help both a person and a business to make meaningful contacts that are life changing and life giving.
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614487340
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The goal is to create real connections that help both a person and a business to make meaningful contacts that are life changing and life giving.
Scum
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the poverty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears impotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeming life of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. . .
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374529078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the poverty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears impotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeming life of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. . .
The Penitent
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374531536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Joseph Shapiro, a New York businessman, experiences a mid-life crisis. He leaves his wife, his mistress, his business and goes to Israel in search of religious Orthodoxy.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374531536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Joseph Shapiro, a New York businessman, experiences a mid-life crisis. He leaves his wife, his mistress, his business and goes to Israel in search of religious Orthodoxy.
In My Father's Court
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374505926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374505926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.
The Seance and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374508321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374508321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.
An Isaac Bashevis Singer Reader
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780374514891
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780374514891
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description