Author: Seth L. Wolitz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029279147X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language And The Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches To The study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel "Yarme and Keyle". Seth L. Wolitz holds the L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature.
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Seth L. Wolitz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029279147X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language And The Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches To The study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel "Yarme and Keyle". Seth L. Wolitz holds the L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029279147X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language And The Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches To The study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel "Yarme and Keyle". Seth L. Wolitz holds the L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature.
The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Seth L. Wolitz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292757905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel Yarme and Keyle.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292757905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel Yarme and Keyle.
The Hidden God of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Grace Farrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Isaac B. Singer
Author: Florence Noiville
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374178000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Draws on personal recollections, letters, and inteviews with friends, family, and associates to present a portrait of the popular Yiddish writer.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374178000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Draws on personal recollections, letters, and inteviews with friends, family, and associates to present a portrait of the popular Yiddish writer.
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 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.
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.
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.
Lost in America
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Autobiographical.
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Autobiographical.
Old Love
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099286462
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as "in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience". Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099286462
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as "in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience". Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.