Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is set in Warsaw in the days leading up to World War I. There Dr. Nahum Fischelson lives alone in an attic room overlooking Market Street. From on high he observes the crowd below, showing equal disdain for merchants and thieves alike. Rather than mingle with the people, he devotes his time and energy to explicating the philosophical
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903–1991) was the Nobel Prize–winning author of many novels, short story collections, memoirs, and children's books, including Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, The Magician of Lublin, and Enemies, A Love Story. David Stromberg, a writer, translator, and literary scholar, is editor for the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust. His books include Baddies, Idiot Love and the Elements of Intimacy, and A Short Inquiry into...
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Corre el año 1911 cuando Keyle, una prostituta judía, conoce al amor de su vida, Yarme, ex convicto. La joven pareja sueña con escapar de la miseria del gueto de Varsovia, donde viven bajo la constante amenaza de los pogromos, así que cuando Max, un viejo conocido, les ofrece participar en sus lucrativos negocios en Sudamérica, no lo dudan ni un momento. Pero Max también se siente atraído por Yarme, y surge un funesto triángulo amoroso que...
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Writings On Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yiddish and English oeuvre. David Stromberg, editor of the Singer Literary Trust, presents 25 never-before-translated essays originally published between 1939-1945, which were selected from over 150 written by Singer during WWII.
Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural...
6) Simple Gimpl
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THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE'S ONLY NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE PUTS HIS MOST FAMOUS STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS: Isaac Bashevis Singer was never entirely happy with Saul Bellow's canonical translation of "Gimpel the Fool" from Singer's original "Gimpl Tam." This first-ever publication of Singer's own English translation is a cause for celebration.
A BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE BILINGUAL EDITION: The perfect gift for enthusiasts and resource for scholars, Simple Gimpl presents...
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In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would meet other Polish and Russian immigrants. In the fifties, a woman named Esther became part of their group. Although she had been in a Russian prison camp and now had taken a menial job to support her cripple father, she was cheerful and outgoing. She and the author became good friends, but each time he saw her, she looked more disenchanted; her father...
8) Fate
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A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.
Recorded before a live audience at Chicago's Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.
Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Marge Kotlisky as Bessie Gold
Malcolm Rothman as The Writer
Additional voices by David Cromer, Steven Trovillion and Jensen...
11) Scum
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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[1991]
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English
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After the death of his seventeen-year old son, Max travels back to Warsaw, while his wife stays in South America. There he begins a series of affairs with different women.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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[1968]
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Translated by Roger H. Klein and others. CONTENTS: The seance.- The slaughterer.- The dead fiddler.- The lecture.- Cockadoodledoo.- The plagiarist.- Zeitl and Rickel.- The warehouse.- Henne Fire.- Getzel the monkey.- Yanda.- The neelde.- Two corpses go dancing.- Tha parrot.- The brooch.- The letter writer.
17) Shosha
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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[1978]
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English
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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.
20) Hunger
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First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on "an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body." Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic...
