Short Story Collections

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.

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An ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War II--featuring striking black and white photographs by Roman Vishniac. In this series of short stories, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals his childhood as part of Warsaw's Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the Nazi Holocaust destroyed their culture. From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer's stories and Vishniac's photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.

A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and a way of life.

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Chelm is a village of fools. The most famous fools—the oldest and the greatest—are the seven Elders. But there are lesser fools too: a silly irresponsible bridegroom; four sisters who mix up their feed in bed one night; a young man who imagines himself dead. Here are seven magical folktales spun by a master storyteller, that speak of fools, devils, schlemiels, and even heroes—like Zlateh the goat. The New York Times called Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories , "beautiful stories for children, written by a master." The New York Book Review said, "This book is a triumph. If you have no older children on your list, buy it for yourself." Singer's extraordinary book of folklore is illustrated by Maurice Sendak, who won a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are . Supports the Common Core State Standards

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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."

Eight stories based on traditional Jewish themes from Eastern Europe include: Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser; Tsirtsur & Peziza; Rabbi Leib & the Witch Cunegunde; The Elders of Chelm & Genendel's Key; Shlemiel, the Businessman; Utzel & His Daughter Poverty; Menaseh's Dream; When Shlemiel went to Warsaw.The Newbery Honor Book features eight stories, some of them based on traditional Jewish tales, by one of the greatest storytellers of our time

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. The twenty-four (24) stories in this collection were translated from Yiddish (Singer's language of choice for writing) by Singer, Laurie Colwin, and others. The stories appear in the following "A Crown of Feathers"-"A Day in Coney Island"-"The Captive"-"The Blizzard"-"Property"-"The Lantuch"-"The Son from America"-"The Briefcase"-"The Cabalist of East Broadway"-"The Bishop's Robe"-"A Quotation from Klopstock"-"The Magazine"-"Lost"-"The Prodigy"-"The Third One"-"The Recluse"-"A Dance and a Hop"-"Her Son"-"The Egotist"-"The Beard"-"The Dance"-"On a Wagon"-"Neighbors"-"Grandfather and Grandson" ___ Alfred Kazin noted in his 1974 review of the book in The New York Times "Isaac Bashevis Singer is an extraordinary writer. And this new collection of stories, like so much that he writes, represents the most delicate imaginative splendor, wit, mischief and, not least, the now unbelievable life that Jews once lived in Poland."

"Passions" tells of the ability of a simple man to overcome the impossible with the proper amount of focussed passion.

True stories about Chelm, the city of fools, the autobiographical "Growing Up", and A Hanukkah Eve in Warsaw are among these nine stories for children

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 counsel of a neighborhood rabbi. The twenty-seven stories gathered here show this world as it appeared to a young boy. From the earthy to the ethereal, these stories provide an intimate and powerful evocation of a bygone world.

Eight tales by Nobellaureate Isaac Bashevis Singer--one for each night of the Hanukkah celebration--tell of a world in which miracles aboundl, love triumphs, and faith prevails. Full-color pictures throughout.

pp. 47 Limited edition number 74/ 250 .Signed by the author and illustrator on limitation with a separate suite of 24 original etchings each signed by Moskowitz.

The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

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." Stories for Children is a 1984 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year.

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.

Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be."

Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying to understand the confusion of a holocaust survivor, illuminate the great themes of human suffering with supernal grace.

In this most recent offering from Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories brings together nineteen stories that were translated in Singer's lifetime but left uncollected or unpublished. The stories were translated either by Singer himself or under his personal supervision, and appeared in The New Yorker , Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review, Tablet, Narrative, Jewish Review of Books, and American Scholar . Singer was recognized as a master storyteller. His mastery came not only from inborn talent, but also from edits and revisions. He was an artist of variations, and these stories communicate their uniqueness not only by their apparent words, but also by how they are different from similar narratives Singer had composed. Readers less familiar with Singer’s writing can enjoy the narratives for their storytelling mastery. Readers more familiar with Singer’s writing have the privilege of seeing how he winds the threads of his narrative in different directions even when the circumstances seem similar to stories he has written before—combining the pleasure of the familiar with the power of nuance and originality. About the author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author of short stories, novels, essays, cultural criticism, memoirs, and stories for children. His career spanned nearly seven decades of literary production, at the center of which was the translation of his work from Yiddish into English, which he undertook with various collaborators and editors. Singer published widely during his lifetime, with nearly sixty stories appearing in The New Yorker, and received numerous awards and prizes, including two Newberry Honor Book Awards (1968 & 1969), two National Book Awards (1970 & 1974) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1978). Known for fiction that portrayed 19th-century Polish Jewry as well as supernatural tales that combined Jewish mysticism with demonology, Singer was a master storyteller whose sights were set squarely on the tension between human nature and the human spirit.