Isaac Bashevis Singer

On the eighth night of Hanukkah, a family rescues a Yiddish-speaking, dreidel-playing parakeet.

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...

Writings On Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yiddish and English oeuvre. David Stromberg, editor of the Singer Literary Trust, presents 25 never-before-translated essays originally published between 1939-1945, which were selected from over 150 written by Singer during WWII. Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural...

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...

A novel on post-World War II Jewish refugees in New York. It is centered on the Makavers, a prosperous family torn by scandal. Anna, their daughter, has left her husband and taken up with a married man.

Seven stories based on middle European Jewish folklore and legends.

Translated by Roger H. Klein and others. CONTENTS: The seance.- The slaughterer.- The dead fiddler.- The lecture.- Cockadoodledoo.- The plagiarist.- Zeitl and Rickel.- The warehouse.- Henne Fire.- Getzel the monkey.- Yanda.- The neelde.- Two corpses go dancing.- Tha parrot.- The brooch.- The letter writer.

Sixteen tales, some of which have appeared in "Commentary", "Esquire", and "The Saturday Evening Post."

In 17th-century Poland, a poor Jewish yeshiva teacher marries and converts a gentle peasant girl--against Judaic, Christian, and Polish law. Translated from the Yiddish.

Joseph Shapiro, a New York businessman, experiences a mid-life crisis. He leaves his wife, his mistress, his business and goes to Israel in search of religious Orthodoxy.