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(0)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...
7) 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...
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Princeton University Press
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[2022]
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English
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"This volume collects eighteen essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A prolific author of fiction, memoir, and criticism, Singer wrote primarily in Yiddish, but he translated several dozen of his essays into English to present as lectures at colleges and synagogues throughout his life, especially during the 1960s. Despite his plans to collect and publish these essays before his death, they...