Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903–1991) was the Nobel Prize–winning author of many novels, short story collections, memoirs, and children's books, including Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, The Magician of Lublin, and Enemies, A Love Story. David Stromberg, a writer, translator, and literary scholar, is editor for the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust. His books include Baddies, Idiot Love and the Elements of Intimacy, and A Short Inquiry into...
3) Simple Gimpl
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THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE'S ONLY NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE PUTS HIS MOST FAMOUS STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS: Isaac Bashevis Singer was never entirely happy with Saul Bellow's canonical translation of "Gimpel the Fool" from Singer's original "Gimpl Tam." This first-ever publication of Singer's own English translation is a cause for celebration.
A BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE BILINGUAL EDITION: The perfect gift for enthusiasts and resource for scholars, Simple Gimpl presents...
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Writings On Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yiddish and English oeuvre. David Stromberg, editor of the Singer Literary Trust, presents 25 never-before-translated essays originally published between 1939-1945, which were selected from over 150 written by Singer during WWII.
Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural...
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In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would meet other Polish and Russian immigrants. In the fifties, a woman named Esther became part of their group. Although she had been in a Russian prison camp and now had taken a menial job to support her cripple father, she was cheerful and outgoing. She and the author became good friends, but each time he saw her, she looked more disenchanted; her father...
6) Fate
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A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater.
Recorded before a live audience at Chicago's Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.
Adapted and directed by Arnold Aprill
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Marge Kotlisky as Bessie Gold
Malcolm Rothman as The Writer
Additional voices by David Cromer, Steven Trovillion and Jensen...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor, who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An aging author risks his long-time relationship with the women he loves when he uses his book tours as opportunities to let his erotic imagination take flight. His fantasies and real-life encounters challenge his peace of mind as they feed his work.
10) Yentl
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
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2 DVDs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off...