Gimpel the Fool

Gimpel the Fool
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374530254

Twelve short stories about Jewish life in Poland.

Gimpel the Fool

Gimpel the Fool
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1957
Genre: Jewish fiction
ISBN:

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.

The Seance and Other Stories

The Seance and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1980-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374508321

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

The Image and Other Stories

The Image and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1987-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374520793

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.

Short Friday

Short Friday
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374504407

Collected Stories

Collected Stories
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 888
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141196777

The author's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of short stories brings together the best of his writing. They look at good and evil, passion and restraint, religious fervour and personal failings.

A Friend of Kafka

A Friend of Kafka
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1979-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374515387

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."

The Slave

The Slave
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1988-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374506803

A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.

More Stories from My Father's Court

More Stories from My Father's Court
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2001-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466810084

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.