A story about a village and its inhabitants in Warsaw in the 1930s during Hitler's rise to power.

Shosha (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Literature & Fiction

Bashevis Singer,Isaac

Genre Fiction

Goodreads Press

This volume features forty-seven stories selected by Isaac Bashevis Singer from all his short work published in English between 1957 and 1981. From the tragically ironic “Taibele and Her Demon” to the poignant “The Unseen,” and from gentle humor in “Gimpel the Fool” to tragedy with “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,” these tales explore good and evil, passion and restraint, religious fervor and personal failings, within the traditional shtetls of prewar Eastern Europe and postwar America. It includes supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw, the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and modern Jewish life from the Lower East Side to California, Miami, South America, and Israel.

Collected Stories (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Literary

Set in nineteenth-century Poland, this novel tells the story of Yasha – a sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape – famous for Houdini-like tricks. A free thinker with an observant Jewish wife at home and a woman in every town, his exploits catch up with him and he is tempted to make one final escape – from his marriage, his homeland, and his father's religious heritage. But his plans unravel and he instead seeks to lock himself up in a place that even he won't be able to escape – and to spend the rest of his days doing penitence.

The Magician of Lublin (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

World Literature

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions

A collection of short stories by a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader in a rich sensory experience of bygone days. One moment the reader has goosebumps, the next moment her heart is inspired to the heights of human inspiration.

Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and Other Stories: including Short Friday (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Originally published in Yiddish between 1953-1955 as a single work, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s The Manor and The Estate now appear in a single-volume English edition. Recounting the tales of Polish Jews in the second half of the nineteenth century – a time of rapid industrial growth and radical social change – the novel depicts the Jewish community moving from the ghetto to prominence within Polish society. As Singer writes in his author’s note, “All the spiritual and intellectual ideas that triumphed in the modern era had their roots in the world of that time – socialism and nationalism, Zionism and assimilationism, nihilism and anarchism, suffragettism, atheism, the weakening of the family bond, free love, and even the beginnings of Fascism.” Telling the story of Calman Jacoby, who stands between the old and the new, the book portrays the difficulties encountered by traditional Jews coming to terms with the changes brought on by modernity.

The Manor and The Estate (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Isaac Bashevis Singer is known for his mastery of storytelling – but it was not until 1966, at the age of sixty-two, that he published his first children’s book, Zlateh the Goat, a Newbery Honor Book and instant classic. Singer went on to write many stories for children, most of which are included in this volume, along with a brief introduction and a special epilogue, “Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?” The collection presents exuberant and timeless tales for children rich in fantasy and deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. A number of the stories appear in book form for the first time – and all have been translated from the Yiddish with the author’s personal supervision.

Stories for Children (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Children's Books

Classics

Enemies, A Love Story: A play in two acts based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Chen, Roy

Dramas & Plays

Playsmith

Set in 17th century Poland, The Slave tells the story of Jacob, a young Talmudic scholar sold into slavery after the Chmielnicki massacres - and who falls in love with his master's daughter, Wanda. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a wife who is not Jewish, and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

The Slave (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

In his classic followup to his debut story collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957), Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to introduce American readers to his unique brand of fiction in eleven unforgettable stories.

The Spinoza of Market Street: and Other Stories (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity reign free, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.\nPraise:\n"Beautifully written by one of the masters of Yiddish prose, and beautifully translated, ''Satan in Goray'' is folk material transmuted into literature." — The New York Times Review of Books\n"A gripping parable of reason versus revelation, hysteria in the face of apocalypse" — Guardian\n"Whatever religion his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality." — Ted Hughes, New York Review of Books 
"Singer sets scenes with such vividness that there is almost a smell to his books, the smell of poverty and guttering candles and decaying lives and decaying souls. — Observer\n"His storytelling powers are so immense, so natural. He has more creative confidence than any living writer." — Financial Times

Satan in Goray (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

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