Best Selling Books by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife. Unsure of who he really is, what he wants and whether he can ever find peace, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of paranoia and impending doom. Published in 1972, Enemies, A Love Story is an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past. ''One is forever suspended between laughter and tears by this rich and marvellous novel.'' The New York Times ''Isaac Bashevis Singer is a rare pleasure . . . a literary genius.'' San Francisco Chronicle Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

These are wonderful [Yiddish] stories with vivid characterizations, lush imagery, and plots rich with emotion and imagination. My favorite is Passions: a meditation on how man becomes obsessed with something--to the extent of transforming one''s life--anything can become a passion. --David Oberlander at Amazon.com.

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

Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.

"The Nobel Prize-winning author again gives us a collection of stories that children will read and reread."-Children''s Book Review Service

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

A delightful sequel to a cherished autobiographical collection by the Nobel Laureate In My Father''s Court is one of Isaac Bashevis Singer''s most affecting autobiographical works. The stories in it, published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father''s home on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. A unique institution, the beth din was a combined court of law, synagogue, scholarly institution, and psychologist''s office where people sought out the advice and counsel of a neighborhood rabbi. The thirty-one stories gathered here, none previously published in English, show this world as it appeared to a young boy: In "A Guest in the Prayerhouse," a man who has converted to Judaism embarrasses the community with his extreme piety; in "She Will Surely Be Ashamed," a couple come for a divorce after forty years of marriage even though they are still in love; in the extraordinary "He Begs Forgiveness," a jeweler apologizes to his former fiancée for abandoning her twelve years before, igniting the imagination of the young Singer, who dreams of writing stories about dark, eternal love. From the earthy to the ethereal, these stories provide an intimate and powerful evocation of a world.

Sequel to the manor. Translated from the Yiddish.

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.

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

Eight stories based on traditional Jewish themes from Eastern Europe include: Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser; Tsirtsur & Peziza; Rabbi Leib & the Witch Cunegunde; The Elders of Chelm & Genendel''s Key; Shlemiel, the Businessman; Utzel & His Daughter Poverty; Menaseh''s Dream; When Shlemiel went to Warsaw.

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

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

"Noah was a righteous man," says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ark with Noah. In a fresh and lively approach to the age-old account, Isaac Bashevis Singer sets down the dialogue of the animals as they vie with one another for a place on the Ark.

Included in the papers of Robert Giroux located at Loyola University New Orleans. Possibly part of the stories considered and edited for The Collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 1982.

With varying degrees of success, a group of Jewish friends have established new lives in New York. But then, after a dinner party, David Grein begins an adulterous affair with Anna, the daughter of the powerful Boris Amekrver, and the repercussions are enormous.

When their wishes fail, three children learn that they must deserve by effort what they had wanted to get too easily.

A devout Jew brings the word of God to the pagan Mazovia in Poland, helps abolish human sacrifice, and unites the people.

Isaac Bashevis Singer'' s first collection of stories, "Gimpel the Fool," is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow'' s masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive pre World War II ghettos of Poland and, beyond that, the larger world created by Singer'' s unforgettable prose.

Evocation de la communauté juive de Pologne à la veille de l''holocauste nazi.