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| 1. |  | Enemies, A Love Story from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.20 Customer Review:  New York after the Jewish Holocaust in Europe. Herman Broder lives a frantic life between 2 wives, and soon to be three. He writes books for a rabbi. His life is a lie, a big lie to which he's grown used. His mind is a mess, just as his life is. The women around him are products of their survival... |
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| 2. |  | Stories for Children from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $10.20 Customer Review:  As Singer noted in his 1984 Foreword, "in the beginning was the Logos, the power of the word." He had never believed he could write for children, but editor Elizabeth Shub convinced him otherwise in the early 1960s. Twelve volumes of children's books followed, from which these 36 tales are gleaned.... |
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| 3. |  | The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $13.60 Customer Review:  Isaac Bashevis Singer is not a good short story writer. Isaac Bashevis Singer is not a bad short story writer. Isaac Bashevis Singer is not a mediocre short story writer. He is all and none of these things because he is primarily not a short story writer, in the modern sense. Yes, a handful of his... |
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| 4. |  | Satan in Goray: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I just want to add to the chorus of positive endorsements. Anyone who is thinking about buying this and reading it probably should. It is quite memorable, the course of events: from a difficult, harsh life in a 17th century Polish village where people aspire to live by the Torah to insanity and... |
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| 5. |  | Mysteries: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.20 Customer Review: Johan Nagel appears one day in a small Norwegian town. This novel is all about Nagel, a man who cannot be described simply. He is incredibly selfless and kindly to those he meets and generally learns to expect nothing in return. Nagel gives respect to a man who is continuously maltreated by everyone... |
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| 6. |  | Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories from HarperCollins Price: $12.21 Customer Review: Singer and Sendak are an unbeatable combination. Sendak is amazing in what he can do with pen and ink (no color). I think those who are familiar with Yiddish culture would appreciate these stories more than those who are not. |
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| 7. |  | In My Father's Court from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.88 Customer Review: The book is set in early 20th century Poland. It's about how the writer spent his childhood in his fathers rabbinate. Great book, very highly recomended, much better than other (still pretty good) works by Singer I've read. Forewords of I.B.Singer's "In My Father's Court" (slightly tacky... |
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| 8. |  | The Slave from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.20 Customer Review: In "The Slave", Singer presents us with a pious Jewish man (Jacob) who, despite the fact that he has lost his wife and children in a massacre in 1648 Poland, still retains his religious beliefs. Jacob, after losing his entire family in a slaughter, is sold as a virtual slave to a Polish farmer,... |
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| 9. |  | A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $8.95 Customer Review: I am Jewish, and I learned a lot from this book. I learned about life in Warsaw, and about the time period around World War I. It shows how that time compares to this, and how much more we have now than back then. Lots of people take electric lights for granted. This book shows what it was like to... |
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| 10. |  | Why Noah Chose the Dove (Sunburst Book) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Price: $6.95 Customer Review:  This is cute book, but the pictures, in my opinion, are much to impressionist for a toddler to see. The adults enjoy the art and the story was to wordy for a little one to stay interested. I would opt for a different book on Noah, but I will keep the book on my shelf! |
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| 11. |  | Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149) from Library of America Price: $23.10 Customer Review: There is something magical about Singer's writing. It is so simple, so effortless, and yet so profound. I devoured all three volumes of the Library of America Singer short stories, and have gone on to several of the novels, as well as the children's stories. I am sure I will be going back to the... |
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| 12. |  | Shosha: A Novel from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $11.25 Customer Review: Shosha is a great book by one of the leading authors of the 20th century. It is a beutiful love story with a difference. |
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| 13. |  | The Family Moskat: A Novel (FSG Classics) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $13.60 Customer Review: By any standard, the word sweeping well suits Singer's novel "The Family Moskat." The novel spreads over almost a century of transformative history, ending at the outbreak of World War II, which will see before its end the entire civilization represented transformed into nothing but ash. Yet... |
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| 14. |  | Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $11.05 Customer Review: This book contains Saul Bellow's translation of 'Gimpel the Fool'. This is the translation and the story which made Singer famous in America. It is a masterwork. Singer is for me the greatest of all storywriters. I feel a special love for the Jewish world of characters he so wonderfully... |
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| 15. |  | Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel (FSG Classics) from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $11.56 Customer Review: This is the first book I've read by Singer. Right from the start of the book, he reveals himself as a master craftsman of character and dialogue. His characters are incredibly real and complex. They defy categorization, as real individuals tend to do. Their struggles are very human and believable.... |
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| 16. |  | Isaac Basheivus Singer: Three Complete Novels (R) from Random House Value Publishing | |
| 17. |  | Meshugah from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $20.00 Customer Review: This is the story of a group of pre-war Yiddish intellectuals transplanted from Warsaw to New York. The main character, Aaron Greidinger, is a short story and novelist writer as much as I.B.Singer was in real life. His friend Max, long thought dead, reappears and introduces his mistress Miriam. A... |
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| 18. |  | The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Customer Review: I remember this book from when I was a child. Now that I have children of my own I am THRILLED to find out it is still in print. I have fond memories of reading the stories by myself and can't wait to share them with my children. |
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| 19. |  | Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America) from Library of America Price: $23.10 Customer Review: Why is Singer such a great story writer? One answer is that he really does tell stories which make the reader want to know what is going to happen next to the characters. But it is much more than that. His stories are filled with surprise. His characters are true originals, often so... |
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| 20. |  | Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V.2 Kafka: Kafka to Passions (Library of America) from Library of America Price: $26.60 Customer Review: What makes the Singer story so remarkable? First of all, the Singer story is always a story. A beginning, a middle an end, and things which happen. Secondly, its language is lively and humorous, rich in Yiddish idiom, colorful alive. Thirdly, the Singer story has remarkable, memorable... |
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| 21. |  | The Manor and the Estate (Library Of World Fiction) from University of Wisconsin Press Price: $14.96 | |
| 22. |  | Love and Exile: An Autobiographical Trilogy from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $28.00 | |
| 23. |  | The Magician of Lublin from Bantam | |
| 24. |  | The Penitent from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $15.00 Customer Review: Although tagged as a novel, this work is a singular example of a polemic or diatribe even rant in the form of a monologue by one Joseph Shapiro whose target is modern America (c 1969) which country and its customs is synonymous with Sodom. Art, marriage etc in their modern manifestations are... |
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| 25. |  | Yentyl the Yeshiva Boy from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Customer Review: There's quite a debate going on in these reviews, so let me return to the main point of these reviews and state that this is an excellent story and well worth reading. As others have pointed out, in adapting the book to a movie, Barbra STreisand made substantive changes in the story, changes that... |
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| 26. |  | Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $19.00 Customer Review: The title story of this work is one of the greatest of all Singer's stories. It tells of a poor aged sick student of philosophy who has dedicated his whole life to understanding Spinoza's thought, and his meeting with a poor, ugly , cleaning lady who comes to care for him in his illness. It is a... |
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| 27. |  | A Crown of Feathers from Farrar, Straus & Giroux | |
| 28. | [no image] | The manor: Isaac Bashevis Singer from Dell | |
| 29. |  | The Fools of Chelm and Their History from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Customer Review: You could say I like Chelm stories, and that I buy every one I can. You could also say that Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote this tale in 1973, was no ordinary purveyor of Chelm shtiklech. You can tell from his beginning, a master's parody of Genesis. "The pious believed that God said, 'Let... |
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| 30. |  | Scum from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $19.00 Customer Review: Singer (and his translator) manages with beautiful, easy-to-read prose, to evoke a lost world. His sketches of the the people and places in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw c 1906 are memorable and convincing. While I was reading the book I was conscious that the city was flattened in the 1940s and 6/7... |
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