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Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America)

1 review
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Library of America, 2004

The great master of the short- story
Why is Singer such a great story writer? One answer is that he really does tell stories which make the reader want to know what is going to happen next to the characters. But it is much more than that. His stories are filled with surprise. His characters are true originals, often so unexpectedly eccentric one cannot have any real idea of what they are going to do next. The world he writes in ...

The Slave

14 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988

brilliant evocation of a unique moment, yet with universal dilemmas
This is a beautiful, spare book about a great, forbidden passion, in which two cultures clash with tragic and yet strangely uplifting results. The Slave is Jacob, a survivor of unspeakable horrors in the 1648 Polish revolution - having lost his entire family and become enslaved in desperate and degrading circumstances, he strives to keep his religion and his inner self intact. What he discovers ...

Satan in Goray: A Novel

10 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Literature as Anthropology
When times are desperate as they have been in many eras and many places, people tend to resort to desperate measures. They cast their lot with prophets, dreamers, and seers who foretell a bright future--the coming of the millenium, it is often called----when all problems shall be solved, the rough made plain, the poor made rich, and sick shall be healed. Movements develop. They may die away in ...

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

14 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983

Magnificent and Masterful, Spirited and Profound
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a master storyteller and any reader will be well-rewarded for spending time with his "Collected Stories." Many of these stories are set in Poland before World War II or post-war New York City, but there is a spiritual energy that drives all of these tales, regardless of location. Old World demons and devils can be found in "The Unseen," "The Destruction of Kreshev," ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149)

5 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Library of America, 2004

Stories of Love, Wonder, and Joy
These stories are filled with hope, love, and a sense of belonging to family and to the world. They are theological but never heavy-handed; they are luminous. Singer writes with humor, gentleness, and a fine sense of the deeper realities of life: the depth of meaning that gives hope to everyday events and ordinary people. The best short story collection I have come across.

In My Father's Court

4 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991

A book full of loving details
Observing through the eyes of a young child we are led through life in the jewish community of Warshaw. Many different figures appear in the house of the boy's father, the rabbi, to ask for his advice and judgement, decisions in religious or worldly matters. Behind all that we feel the deep love of the author, not only for the chracters depicted in the many stories, but for all human beings. It ...

Stories for Children

6 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1985

Just as magical as the Harry Potter books!
Over the years I've read this book to my daughter several times. As most children, she has her favorites and never tires of those. You've got demons and witches and holy men who fight evil. You've got moral lessons that teach without preaching. All written with compassion and a deft hand. Adventure abounds. Excitement rules the day. You'll find yourself speaking with a Yiddish accent in ...

Mysteries: A Novel

30 reviews
Knut Hamsun

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Wow. An absolute masterpiece....
I honestly do not know exactly what to say about this novel, other than thank God I managed to stumble upon it one day in my grandfather's collection. I just finished it several minutes ago and it was one of the most fascinating, thought provoking, and mesmorizing books I have ever read. The manic main character is easily one of my favorite characters found in any book or movie (or in real ...

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

4 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1986

Grandfather telling stories...
To enjoy listening to stories told by grandfather, you don't necessarily have to be a child! As a matter of fact, it is a life virtue to enjoy these stories told by Isaac Bashevis Singer, regardless of age. They are set in the now vanished Hassidic community of pre-II World War, but their moral content transcends time and space, and although they are soaked in Jewishness they equally appeal ...

Enemies, A Love Story

11 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988

Nobel Prize Winners are few and far between
There are reasons that Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and all of these reasons are apparent in ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY. Though he is not the only Jewish author to have won the Nobel, he is the only author whose primary writing was in Yiddish. Hence, the version of ENEMIES that I read was a translation. Still, the simplicity of his prose shines through the novel. His ...

The Seance

2 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980

Tales of the world I never knew and never will
Thanks to my grandparents, who came to America in the first decade of the 20th century, I grew up and have had a good life. Thanks to my grandparents, I didn't become a piece of ash or a few tossed out bones in an Eastern European field at the age of 2. Wars are wars; they've occured throughout human history, but in most of them, whole civilizations didn't disappear. But the Eastern ...

Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel (FSG Classics)

25 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Nowhere plans for nobody
"Shadows on the Hudson" is an excellent novel, even better than Singer's similiar but more compact "Enemies, a Love Story". Few writers have ever been able to involve the reader in the inner lives of fictional characters the way Singer could, and fewer still would have been able to make their stories so fascinating when they're all so cynical and often downtrodden, bemoaning God's silence and the ...

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories

4 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

HarperCollins, 2001

Fool's paradise
If your children love either Isaac Singer or Chelm, look no further than these seven tales. They will treasure the book always, because, as Singer noted in the Foreword to this 1966 volume, "In stories time does not vanish. Neither do men and animals. For the writer and his readers the creatures go on living forever. What happened a long time ago is still present." Singer dedicated the stories to ...

The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah

5 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1980

Almost Too Good to Be True
The book, that is. The stories and pictures are just unbelievably warm and beautiful. I often read this short book cover to cover during Chanukah--one sparkling little gem a night. Just perfect for adults and, I'm sure, children, too. In fact, I can't imagine anything nicer than to read these to a kid on Chanukah. This book is the perfect gift, to yourself or anyone else. And if you can ...

The Family Moskat: A Novel (FSG Classics)

7 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

One of his best
Back in the 70s I read whatever was available by Singer. This was one of the first, and my favorite. I love long, involved stories with lots of characters. I don't remember much about any of his stories because it's been over 20 years since I read them, but I remember my impressions. I prefer all his stories that take place in Poland over those that are set in US. The textures are different. ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V.2 Kafka: Kafka to Passions (Library of America)

2 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Library of America, 2004

Singer is in the highest rank of short story authors
I had read the collected stories of Singer many years ago and many of the images remained embedded in my mind and it was with great joy that I am able to relive them. Even though he wrote novels, I do not believe that Singer would have won the Nobel Prize without his short story output. It is interesting to witness the growth of Singer as a human and an artist. This middle volume of the LOA ...

Why Noah Chose the Dove (Sunburst Book)

4 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1987

"Why are you silent?" Noah asked the dove.
When the people of the world sinned, and God chose the only righteous man, Noah, to build an ark, all of the animals gathered around. They, however, believed that Noah would only pick best of all the living creatures. The animals began to boast and argue amongst each other. "I am the largest," said the Elephant. "I am man's best friend," replied the dog. They argued and argued. Noah noticed ...

The Magician of Lublin
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Bantam, 1968

Meshugah

2 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

Another Singer Classic
I first read "The Slave" and fell in love with Singer's simple yet vivid story telling. Meshugah did not disappoint. I enjoyed reading about three colorful characters (Polish refugees) involved in a bizarre love triangle. Meshugah gives great insight on life after the Holocaust. Despite the horrors of WWII, Judaism, the Yiddish language, and love continue in New York City.

Shosha: A Novel

13 reviews
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

Shosha will never be written again.
Several years ago while I was a student at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts I had the good fortune to hear Dr. Yehuda Bauer, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the shtetl. This is a vanished world that few scholars can discuss any longer and one of its most daunting demands is its formidable linguistic challenges. Hungarian, Polish, Yiddish and Russian are hardly the close cousins ...

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