182 results for "Isaac Bashevis Singer" between $5.00 and $50.00

Pages: 272, Edition: 1, Paperback, University of Wisconsin Press

Pages: 315, Paperback, Peter Lang Publishing

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.

Pages: 280, Paperback, University of Texas Press

Pages: 296, Paperback, University Press of Mississippi

Chelm is a village of fools. The most famous fools -- the oldest and the greatest -- are the seven Elders. But there are lesser fools too: a silly irresponsible bridegroom; four sisters who mix up their feet in bed one night; a young man who imagines himself dead. Here are seven magical folktales, spun by a master storyteller, that speak of fools, devils, shlemiels, and even heroes -- like Zlateh the goat.

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 runs 45 minutes...

The Sacrifice. A Broken Engagement. A Gruesome Question. The Lame Bride. One Groom and Two Brides. The Suicide.

Literary Criticism Jewish

Pages: 3, Digital, Theodor Herzl Foundation

The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs of the patriarchal Meshulam Moskat and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet provide the center of the book, but its real focus is the civilization that was destroyed forever in the gas chambers of the Second...

A sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir In My Father's Court , these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist's office where people sought out the advice and counsel of a neighborhood rabbi.

ISBN-10: 0374126313 ISBN-13: 9780374126315. Edition: .

Item Details SINGER,ISAAC BASHEVIS. THE GOLEM. NY:FSG (1982). 8vo, cloth, fine in dw. Stated 1st printing of this Jewish legend. Wonderfully illustrated with many full page illustrations by URI SHULEVITZ. [Item #22064] Jewish Interest SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS Price: $125.00 View full size image

Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–91) is the most famous Yiddish writer of the 20th century and perhaps the most influential and important Jewish-American writer ever. Published to coincide with Singer's centennial and the release of his Collected Stories , this slim volume is an edifying and entertaining guide to Singer's life and work, featuring contributions from such writers as Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Francine Prose, Nicholas Dawidoff, Harvey Shapiro, and Joyce Carol Oates...

ISBN-10: 0374517886 ISBN-13: 9780374517885. Edition: First Edit.