Best Selling Books by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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 increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.

In his classic followup to his debut story collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to introduce readers to his unique brand of fiction in eleven unforgettable stories. Praise: "The most brilliant living representative of the Yiddish language in prose and one of the important contemporary writers in America." - The New York Times Review of Books "There is a very old, durable and sage glow to these stories." - Kirkus "Sparkling and triumphant, Isaac Bashevis Singer''s stories are filled with wonder, gratitude, humor, irony and a wry eroticism that manages to exalt the pleasures of the flesh and the soul at the same time." - The Washington Post Book World

These stories with Jews as central characters range in locale from Europe and the Middle East to America.

A Warsaw family, from the turn of the century until the German invasion in 1939.

Seven tales which had their beginnings in middle-European Jewish life.

Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including "Gimpel the Fool," "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," and "The Mirror."

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

Autobiographical stories of the author''s memories of his youth in Poland. Photographs.

Presents a new, recently discovered, posthumously published novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Certificate and The King of the Fields. 20,000 first printing.