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This book of twenty stories is Isaac Bashevis Singer's fifth collection and contains such classics as "The Cafeteria" and "On the Way to the Poorhouse.

Shosha è la compagna di giochi del piccolo Aaron Greidinger, figlio del rabbino della via Krochmalna, a Varsavia. A Shosha, che lo ascolta con la meravigliosa stupefazione dei semplici, Aaron racconta storie fantastiche, fiabe, storie d'amore che non oserebbe raccontare a nessun altro. Ma l'incanto si spezza. La prima guerra mondiale è alle porte, il padre di Aaron è costretto a lasciare la città... Tornato a Varsavia ormai adulto e deciso a d...

The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs of the patriarchal Meshulam Moskat and the unworldly Asa Heshel Bannet provide the center of the book, but its real focus is the civilization that ...

Damals, als die Tiere davon hörten, dass Noah seine Arche baute und nur die besten von ihnen aufnehmen würde, fingen sie miteinander einen Wettstreit an. »Ich bin der Stärkste«, brüllte der Löwe. »Ich dufte von allen am besten. Mein Geruch ist berühmt«, stänkerte das Stinktier. Und so ging es in einem fort. Nur die Taube beteiligte sich nicht. Noah wunderte sich und fragte, ob sie denn nichts Besonderes an sich hätte. »Doch«, gurrte sie und e...

The Penitent tells the story of Jospeh Shapiro, his rapid climb to prosperity, his quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subsequent flight to Israel in order to find salvation.

Eine Frage, die die Menschheit seit Urzeiten beschäftigt, beantwortet der Nobelpreisträger Isaac B. Singer in seiner Kindergeschichte mit großer schlichter Ausdruckskraft. Das Märchen erzählt über die beiden Geister Massel und Schlamassel, wie sie den Menschen Glück und Unglück bringen und über ihre Versuche, sich dabei gegenseitig zu blockieren. Was darin an Weisheit und Wahrheit enthalten ist, wird niemals mit erhobenem Zeigefinger, sonder...

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In the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories written in Yiddish decades earlier. Stretching back to "The Jew from Babylon, " a story first published in 1932, and gathering tales such as "Brother Beetle" and "There are No Coincidences" from the 1960s, the works collected in this Lib...

By the time Isaac Bashevis Singer published the three short-story collections gathered in this Library of America volume-A Friend of Kafka (1970), A Crown of Feathers (1973), and Passions (1975)-he had made his home in America for nearly four decades. Earning his living as a columnist for the Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Jewish Daily Forward), he had risen from nearly complete anonymity outside of his Yiddish readership to international cel...

Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer"--Cover.

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

Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat, " "Mazel and Shlimazel, " and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp.

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Singer's late novel, a magical and resonant fable, recreates the birth of the Polish nation. Through the compelling figure of Cybula, defeated leader of a tribe of hunter-gatherers, it explores the moment when prehistory dissolved into history, superstitions became tinged with skepticism, and men began to turn from many gods towards one god.

The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.

An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the p...

A delightful addition to the cherished autobiographical work of the Nobel Laureate A sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir "In My Father's Court, " these stories, published serially in the 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 couns...