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Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Polish-born Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate, and New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson collaborated on a surreal feature film made in 1973, entitled Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard. This film was at once a documentary about Singer's New York and a dramatization of one his short stories. The film grew out of their friendship, as residents of the same building on the upper West Side of Manhattan, and their common interest in New York City street life. During and after production, Davidson made numerous portraits of Singer and also returned to the Lower East Side for a documentary series of photographs. A selection of more than forty of the stunning images made between 1957 and 1990 is available here for the first time in Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson. The book also includes portraits of Singer, stills from the film, the black and white portfolio known as The Garden Cafeteria, and selections from the Lower East Side series. The Garden Cafeteria was a collaboration depicting denizens of the East Broadway restaurant frequented by Singer during his trips to The Jewish Daily Forward. The portfolio has never been published nor exhibited in its entirety--until this volume. Included is an introduction by Singer himself on Davidson's images, an in-depth interview with Davidson about his art, aesthetic and political views, and his Jewishness, and a reflective, contextual essay by Ilan Stavans on the relevance of this collaboration between the writer and the photographer. Through Davidson's lens we see Singer's literary world of Holocaust survivors and émigrés from Eastern Europe--a displaced culture in its twilight. This book is a co-publication and appears in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, on the occasion of the centennial celebration nationwide of Singer's birth in 2004.

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140

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Terrace Books

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0299206246

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9780299206246

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Conversations

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Conversations

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

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298

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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ISBN 10

0878055908

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9780878055906

Shosha

A Novel

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Shosha

A Novel

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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.

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292

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Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0374524807

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9780374524807

Love and Exile

An Autobiographical Trilogy

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Love and Exile

An Autobiographical Trilogy

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York before the outbreak of war, with the concomitant displacement of a Yiddish writer in a strange land.

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390

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Macmillan

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0374519927

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9780374519926

Old Love

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Old Love

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as 'in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience'. Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred"--

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260

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Fawcett

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0449243435

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9780449243435

Love and Exile

The Early Years : a Memoir

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Love and Exile

The Early Years : a Memoir

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

During his lifetime, the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer has attracted an enormous following and received universal critical acclaim, culminating on the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. His compelling stories and novels, which are steeped in the tradition of Polish-Jewish culture, are remarkable for their insight, humanity, wisdom and humour. Singer, now in his eightieth year, reveals these same qualities in a highly personal account of the formative period of his life in Poland and the United States. Love and Exile traces Singer's intellectual, artistic and emotional development over a period of thirty years . The author tells us in the introduction, 'The Beginning', that he can vividly remember the time when he was only three and growing up in the Orthodox atmosphere of his father's home where rational argument was very much a part of everyday life. It is clear from 'The Beginning' and the first section of the memoir, 'A Little Boy in Search of God', that Singer was an unusually intelligent child who read avidly and constantly questioned the tenets of the Jewish faith. His older brother, Joshua, encouraged him in his search for enlightenment and neither of them seems to have been overpowered by their father's position as a Rabbi. In this colourful portrait of his youth, we sense the tension in Singer's personality: he was spiritually rooted in the Middle Ages but also a heretic, fascinated by magic, spirits and dybbuks. Many of the thoughts he currently holds on God and literature originated from this phase of his life. He wished to transform the sentimental, rather ponderous tradition of Yiddish writing by injecting it with passion and a sense of reality. In 'A Young man in Search of Love, Singer describes the hand-to-mouth existence he led in Warsaw, where he hoped to establish himself as a writer. He creates a powerful impression of the political and artistic atmosphere of the period. He managed to survive on the meager earnings as a journalist and frequented the Writer's Club where he became involved in the highly-charged debates between Communists, Socialists and Fascists. The eager enthusiasm of the young Singer gave way to disillusion. He continued to pray and study, but lived like a libertine, anxious to experience the company of women and the pleasure of sex. In order to escape Nazis and emigrate to Palestine, he agreed to a marriage of convenience. His plans then foundered and 'Lost in America' reveals Singer at his most melancholy and confused. His father had died, Hitler was on the verge of obtaining power, and Singer's emotional life was in turmoil. Eventually he was granted permission to joint his brother, who was at this stage the more respected writer, in the United States. Instead of experiencing a sense of liberation, he suffered from feelings of alienation and doubt. It was a time of crisis when he appeared to drift, unable to derive comfort from his faith and having yet to find his voice as a writer. The memoir, set against a backcloth of great political upheaval in Europe, is characterized by a sense of urgency and personal discovery. Singer's recollections are so vividly evoked, his philosophical and religious analysis so lucidly expressed, the reader is on no doubt that this is a very special autobiography. Love and Exile is a fascinating exploration of the mind and development of one of the greatest mastres of fiction. It is written with humour and affection; it is always direct and accessible - and constantly entertaining.

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352

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Jonathan Cape

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ISBN 10

0224029827

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9780224029827

The Bright Streets of Surfside

The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer

By: Lester Goran,Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The Bright Streets of Surfside

The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer

By: Lester Goran,Isaac Bashevis Singer

This work chronicles 10 years in the life of Isacc Bashevis Singer, as shared by a fellow writer close to him at the time. Goran recounts the course of their friendship. This is an opportunity to learn about the Yiddish writer who often concealed hie real beliefs, feelings and personal history.

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204

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Kent State University Press

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ISBN 10

0873385063

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9780873385060

The Manor & the Estate

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The Manor & the Estate

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Manor and The Estate—combined in this one-volume edition—bold tales of Polish Jews in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time of rapid industrial growth and radical social change that enabled the Jewish community to move from the ghetto to prominent positions within Polish society.

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836

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Terrace Books

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0299205444

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9780299205447

Satan in Goray

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Satan in Goray

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

In the little Polish town of Goray, ravaged by a terrible pogrom, expectations of the 'End of Days' foretold by cabalists run high. Grief becomes joy as news arrives from the Holy Land of the second coming of the Messiah. Usurping power from the pious rabbi, the believers listen to the prophetess Rechele and prepare themselves for the Coming of the Lord, when they will wear golden jackets and eat marzipan candy in the heart of Jerusalem. As religious hysteria grips the town, spirits and demons are abroad at night, and the people grow weaker by the day. But perhaps it is not the spirit of the Lord who possesses the body and mind of Rechele, but Satan himself.

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Random House

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0099285479

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9780099285472

Yentl

A Play

By: Leah Napolin,Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Yentl

A Play

By: Leah Napolin,Isaac Bashevis Singer

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.

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118

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573618429

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9780573618420

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Three Complete Novels

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Three Complete Novels

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Singer probes the human condition in novels about a seventeenth-century Jewish youth sold into slavery, a Holocaust survivor and the women in his life, and Warsaw Jews during Hitler's climb to power

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Random House Value Pub

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0517385805

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9780517385807

The Family Moskat

A Novel

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The Family Moskat

A Novel

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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 was destroyed forever in the gas chambers of the Second World War.

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628

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Macmillan

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0374530645

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9780374530648

The Image and Other Stories

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The Image and Other Stories

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

In these stories, Singer reveals the infinite and colorful contrariness of human beings in vernacular language that is startlingly vivid and fresh.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0816140278

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9780816140275

Book's by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Shosha

Shosha

Love and Exile

Love and Exile

Old Love

Old Love

Love and Exile

Love and Exile

The Bright Streets of Surfside

The Bright Streets of Surfside

The Manor & the Estate

The Manor & the Estate

Satan in Goray

Satan in Goray

Yentl

Yentl

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Three Complete Novels

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Three Complete Novels

The Family Moskat

The Family Moskat

The Image and Other Stories

The Image and Other Stories

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