Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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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"David Stromberg's chronological presentation of Singer's highly readable articles takes readers on a dual journey: one of history, and one of a writer watching history unfold. Every piece in Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt was originally published in the Forverts, the world's largest and most influential Yiddish newspaper. Stromberg's careful curation, contextual explanations, and excellent translations give the readers a unique lens onto the...
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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...
5) 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...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2014
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This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer's work. Theodore Bikel reads this tale in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance.
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...
10) 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...
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In 1648, when the Cossack leader Bogdan Chmielnitski led an uprising against the aristocratic leaders of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jews, caught between the rival armies, were slaughtered or enslaved. For Jacob, a Jew, and Wanda, a Christian, to fall in love in the wake of "The Great Catastrophe" was unthinkable to both their communities.