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BASHEVIS’S DEMONS, which debuted in Stockholm in December 2023, will make its official Off-Broadway bow at Theatre 154, 154 Christopher Street (between Greenwich & Washington Streets), with ...
BASHEVIS'S DEMONS, which debuted in Stockholm in December 2023, will make its official Off-Broadway bow at Out of the Box Theatre, 154 Christopher Street (between Greenwich & Washington Streets ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, ...
It is a pleasure to read the three versions of Simple Gimpl, a short tale by the Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991): the original in Yiddish by Singer, ...
Some heard echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, others Isaac Bashevis Singer. Everyone heard the sound of a phenomenal new talent. When her second novel, ...
Books How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner’s essays for the Forward, talks about the ...
It is this, he argues, that has limited the lasting appeal of the “novelists of my lifetime” and ensured that, of them, only Isaac Bashevis Singer, who died 32 years ago, is likely to achieve ...
Review of: Old Truths and New Clinches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The critic Joseph Epstein liked to tell the story of an acquaintance who wanted something good to read while on a vacation.
There’s a joke about the Upper West Side—the neighborhood that was once home to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the novelists Isaac Bashevis Singer and Philip Roth, and the people who populate ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer is to Yiddish what Israeli author Shai Agnon is to Hebrew; both embodied the languages they spoke, both brought those languages into the 20th Century, and both made a ...
When the much-translated Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, many Yiddish readers felt that Grade had been robbed. 12 Books We Read This Week.