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COLLECTED STORIES OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1982 10016626 "Sparkling and triumphant, Isaac Bashevis Singer's stories are filled with wonder, gratitude, humor, irony and a wry eroticism that manages to exalt the pleasures of the flesh and the soul at the same time."-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "There are whole fistfuls of masterpieces in this one volume: a cornucopia of invention . . . When all is said and done, [it] is an American master's 'Book of Creation.'"-Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review -- Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Product Description 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. - Farrar Straus & Giroux 0-374-12631-3 / 9780374126315
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SHADOWS ON THE HUDSON
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1999 17437 Although Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1935, the circumscribed world of the Polish Jews remained at the heart of his imagination. Beginning with his first major work, Satan in Goray (1935), he used the life of the shtetl as raw material, transforming its folkways, religious practices, superstitions, and sexual habits into superior works of art. From time to time, however, Singer turned his eye upon New World Jews like himself, recording their rapid or reluctant assimilation into the American mainstream. One such book is Shadows on the Hudson. This massive novel originally was serialized in the Yiddish-language Jewish Daily Forward in 1957. Now it has finally been translated into English--in a capable version by Joseph Sherman--and Singer fans should be very grateful. Center stage is occupied by Boris Makaver, a master builder equally devoted to I-beams and the Talmud, and Anna, his much-married daughter. Fanning out from this duo, however, is a small universe of refugees, all of them served up with Singer's customary brio. (Here's a comical snapshot of a shyster named Hertz Grein: "His nose had a Jewish hook, but then had second thoughts and straightened itself out. His lips were thin, and his blue eyes revealed a curious mixture of bashfulness, sharpness, and something else that was hard to define. Margolin used to say that he looked like a Yeshiva boy from Scandinavia.") As the subplots pile up in an unruly heap, the novel sometimes reveals its installment-plan origins. Still, Singer puts his large cast through some wonderful paces, and the endless talk--for these are characters who truly come alive through the medium of rapid, contentious, Yiddish-accented conversation--allows the author to speculate about destiny, identity, and freedom without slowing his story a whit. As Singer said more than once, "Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Originally published serially in Yiddish in The Forward, this novel by Nobel Prize laureate Singer relates the lives of Jewish refugees in New York City just after World War II. Wealthy and religious Boris Makaver is challenged by the scandal created when his daughter Anna abandons her second husband, an unemployed lawyer, for a friend of the family, Grein. The latter is torn by his inability to resist the romantic demands of three women (his wife, his long-time mistress, and Anna) and his attempts to return to the religious faith of his father. The lingering effects of the losses in the Holocaust and the influence of communism and godlessness combine with staged seances and the reappearance of Anna's unsavory first husband to provide much spiritual searching. This major novel is a welcome addition to the Singer library. Plume 0-452-28003-6 / 9780452280038
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SHOSHA
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1978 52109 From a reviewer: "If you are Jewish -an Ashkenazic Jew, reasonably educated both culturally and religiously- there are fingerprints in this work you will think you've seen before, The Warsaw ghetto is filled with old Jewish men and women who live by the word of God, who spend each waking hour in devotion to tradition. This dedication separates them from the modernity surrounding them. Of course their Polish neighbors don't understand them, they are enraptured by gnostic texts that speak vividly of a world that dissipated long before the diaspora to Poland. This is a metaphysical realm not of ressurections but of divinations. There is no palpable realm of the messiah who will deliver Jews from their misery. It is within these texts that, one might argue, these Jews inhabit an apostolic and epistolary reality that makes sense only to them. And that world is not modern. The modern is to be held at arms length, to be suspected and apprehended but never assimilated. Singer, writing from the United States, left this world before the Nazis moved in and obliterated nearly every last inch of it. It is a universal beauty; a humor that speaks of the collective aspirations of a people who have had mostly cause for despair if not, on their best days, ambivalence about redemption in this life. Read this book. It is a touching story whose sublimity is its tragic humor, it's acceptance of defeat as a pre-requisite for uncertain, unpromised, but still possible victory. " Protective mylar book jacket included! 277 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0374263361 / 9780374263362
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