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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Webster's Timeline History, 1904 - 2007
Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Isaac Bashevis Singer," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Isaac Bashevis Singer in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Isaac Bashevis Singer when it is used in proper noun form. Webster...
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Great Writers: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Description From Kultur comes Great Writers. Combining archival footage with commentary, the seven-volume series highlights the lives and careers of some of the 20th century's most accomplished wordsmiths. Born in 1904, Isaac Bashevis Singer is probably best remembered for his book -Yentl, which was adapted as a film starring Barbra Streisand. Great Writers: Isaac Bashevis Singer uses interviews with the author to explore the Nobel Prize-winning author's life and work. Released in 2001, the program...
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The great voice of the Yiddish-language tradition in modern Jewish literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer is best known for short stories (think "Yentl") with deeply Jewish roots yet universal appeal.
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New - Can fatherhood survive 20 years of separation? In this moving account, Israel Zamir, son of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, tells of his difficult and painful reunion with his famous father after 20 years--and of the 35-year relationship that followed. of photos.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (a Life) (paperback)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (a Life) (paperback) - By Janet Hadda
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A Day of Pleasure, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Nobel Prize winner Isacc Bashevis Singer wrote both autobiographical and fantasy tales for children which are deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. This very special collection combines the stories he wrote of his childhood with exuberant and timeless tales that can be included among the world's great folk literature.
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer was born the son of a Polish Rabbi and moved to the United States, but throughout his long career as an author his stories and books were always written in Yiddish and later translated into English or other languages. Singer won a controversial Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 for such works as Gimpel the Fool Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and Lost in America. This profile features rare interviews with Singer and a full historical commentary.
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Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life Books - Biographies
Books. Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life
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Description: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918. Awards: Winner: National Book Award, 1970
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He applauds his mentors, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and explains the merits of the Yiddish language. Whatever the subject, Mr. Singer never hesitates to give his opinion with passionate conviction.
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The Manor, by Isaac Bashevis Singer/ New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/ 1967. Hard cover with dj. BCE. 442pp. Good condition. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Stories for Children(P)by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat", "Mazel and Shlimazel", and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp". All in English and translated from Yiddish.
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To mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Library of America presents Collected Stories, a major celebration of Singer's achievement. Beginning with Gimpel the Fool, whose title story brought Singer to sudden prominence in America when translated by Saul Bellow in 1953, and concluding with The Death of Methuselah, the collection published three years before his death in 1991, this three-volume edition brings together for the first time all the story collections Singer published...
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux., 1974. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER. Nice collection of the writings of Singer includes the novel "The Magician Of Lublin" 15 short stories and four pieces from his memoirs. Two small corner creases to the front cover and a crease to the corner of the back cover. Vg+. ISBN: 374640300. 3rd Printing. Large Paper. Signed Books Jewish Writers Yiddish Herbrew Folklore Short Stories Authors Memiors Spiritualism Magic.
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Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life ofwealth and respectabilty he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to thepo verty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears animpotence 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 teeminglife of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. .
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Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side
n 1973, the Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer collaborated with New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson to make a surreal film, Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard . During and after production, Davidson made numerous portraits of Singer and also returned to the Lower East Side for a documentary series of photographs.
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Tells the stories of four sisters who mixed up their feet in bed one night, the first shlemiel, and the famous and foolish seven Elders of Chelm
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Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V.2 Kafka
To mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Library of America presents Collected Stories, a major celebration of Singer's achievement. Beginning with Gimpel the Fool, whose title story brought Singer to sudden prominence in America when translated by Saul Bellow in 1953, and concluding with The Death of Methuselah, the collection published three years before his death in 1991, this three-volume edition brings together for the first time all the story collections Singer published...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
University of Minnesota Press
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Isaac Bashevis Singer once claimed that he preferred writing stories to novels because the short-story form brought perfection within reach. The 65 stories gathered here show Singer striving for and often achieving such perfection, crafting tales that fuse crystalline storytelling with an unnerving exploration of erotic passion and irrational desire, family life and religious piety, and fundamental emotions such as shame, lust, anger, pride, and tenderness. Also...
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