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Book Synopsis Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer by : Israel Zamir
Download or read book Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Israel Zamir and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) abandoned his wife and five year-old son in 1935 when he left Poland for the US. Twenty years later, his son Zamir went to New York to meet his father. This is Zamir's account of his father and their difficult but ultimately rewarding 35-year relationship. Translated from the 1994 Sifriat Poelim edition. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer by : Israel Zamir
Download or read book Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Israel Zamir and published by Arcade. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he settled. He never did. In 1955, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to meet his father. Gradually their mutual trust grew, and Singer came to rely on his son, also a writer, to translate many of his works into Hebrew. Singer’s strengths and failings, his methods for working, his passion of the Yiddish language, his lust for words, for women and for life all come to new light in Zamir’s candid and touching account. An honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a personal and moving portrait of one of the 20th century’s major writers. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Book Synopsis In My Father's Court by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book In My Father's Court written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.
Book Synopsis Lost in America by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book Lost in America written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical.
Book Synopsis Shadows on the Hudson by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book Shadows on the Hudson written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, "Shadows on the Hudson" traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Book Synopsis The Slave by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book The Slave written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
Book Synopsis Master of Dreams by : Dvorah M. Telushkin
Download or read book Master of Dreams written by Dvorah M. Telushkin and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, twenty-one-year-old Dvorah Telushkin wrote a letter to the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, offering to drive him to and from a creative writing class in return for permission to attend the course. The literary master, then seventy-one, accepted the offer, which led to a twelve-year-long apprenticeship for Telushkin. Throughout Dvorah Telushkin's tenure with Singer, she kept detailed diaries chronicling both their literary efforts and the evolution of their personal relationship. Indeed, Telushkin was the one person to whom Singer tried to teach his craft as a writer. She writes about the great moments in Singer's public life, his winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, his fiery encounter with the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, his surprising meeting with Barbra Streisand, who adapted and starred in the movie version of Singer's short story "Yentl." But the private Singer is revealed as well, the "merry pessimist" haunted by despair and torn between the old-world ethic of his Hasidic forebears in Europe and the moral abandon of modern secular man.
Book Synopsis Isaac B. Singer by : Florence Noiville
Download or read book Isaac B. Singer written by Florence Noiville and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on personal recollections, letters, and inteviews with friends, family, and associates to present a portrait of the popular Yiddish writer.
Book Synopsis Finding My Father by : Deborah Tannen
Download or read book Finding My Father written by Deborah Tannen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.
Download or read book Shosha written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at riches and a passport to America. But as he and the rest of the Writers' Club wait in horror for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood love-still living on Krochmalna Street, still mysteriously childlike herself-who has been waiting for him all these years.
Book Synopsis The Certificate by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book The Certificate written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1922 and David Bendiger, an aspiring eighteen-and-a-half-year-old writer, arrives in Warsaw, penniless and homeless. His only contacts are Sonya, a young woman with whom he has had amorous dealings in the village they have left, and a Zionist functionary who informs him he has qualified for a certificate permitting him to emigrate to Palestine. But in order to make the journey David must enter into a fictitious marriage with a woman so eager to get to Palestine that she will pay all the expenses. While David waits for his certificate, he becomes involved not only with Sonya but with Edusha, the sexually avant-garde Communist Party member in whose apartment he finds a temporary haven; and with Minna, the well-to-do young woman who wants to join her fiance in Palestine and agrees to "marry" David. Grappling with romantic, political, and youthful turmoil, David also confronts his literary future and religious past when his older brother - a writer disillusioned by a recent sojourn in Russia - and his father, an Orthodox rabbi, both turn up in Warsaw. The Certificate was serialized in Yiddish in 1967, but may have been written much earlier. The translator, Leonard Wolf, in a postscript calls it "a very young man's book" and "certainly the most playful of Singer's long fictions", with its alternately comic and poignant shifts in plot. Young David's passions for women, philosophizing, Jewish religious speculation, and Walter Mitty-like fantasies make The Certificate a captivating novel in the great tradition of a master storyteller.
Book Synopsis A Day of Pleasure by : Isaac Bashevis Singer
Download or read book A Day of Pleasure written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 1986-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA Notable Book. A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.
Book Synopsis Lost Landscapes by : Agata Tuszyńska
Download or read book Lost Landscapes written by Agata Tuszyńska and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But her real journey took her deep into the memories of Singer's colleagues and co-workers, of Holocaust survivors and those who were merely witnesses.
Book Synopsis Isaac Bashevis Singer by : Janet Hadda
Download or read book Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Janet Hadda and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-03-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom, and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, including The Family Moskat and Enemies: A Love Story, and his short stories, such as "Yentl" and "Gimpel the Fool," prove him a consummate storyteller and probably the greatest Yiddish writer of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and his World by : Hugh Denman
Download or read book Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and his World written by Hugh Denman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter of a century after Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature it is time to take stock of his achievement. Penetrating studies of his fictional and autobiographical works by leading scholars in the field reveal that for all the acclaim he has received on the basis of the English versions of his works, no adequate evaluation of Bashevis's significance can be made without careful examination of the original Yiddish texts. Critical readings assess inter alia his themes and motifs, the impact of Kabbalah on his work, reflections of society in his original Polish homeland as well as his place within the context of contemporary Jewish American letters and the canon of modern Yiddish and Hebrew writing.
Download or read book Yentl written by Leah Napolin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish girl in Poland who decides to dress and live like a boy so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law after her father dies.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer by : Maxine A. Hartley
Download or read book Guide to the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer written by Maxine A. Hartley and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sage, rabbi, mystic, prophet, historian, and storyteller: Isaac Bashevis Singer fulfills all these roles. With great sensitivity and insight, Guide to the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer provides a succinct and instructive look at some of the main themes of Singer's writing: the relationship between God and mankind; the search for identity in a changing environment; the relationship of the modern Jew to the old/new homeland of Israel; and the Jewish question of faith in the modern secular world. Maxine A. Hartley's analysis provides a deeper understanding and appreciation for a literary figure who wanted only to be known as 'an honest writer.'
