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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Janet Hadda
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Description for Isaac Bashevis Singer
Paperback. Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACY; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 202 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310.
Isaac Bashevis SInger brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, including The Family Moskat and Enemies: A Love Story and his short stories such as Yentl and Gimpel the Fool prove him to be a consummate storyteller and one of the greatest Yiddish writers of the 20th century.
Isaac Bashevis SInger brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, including The Family Moskat and Enemies: A Love Story and his short stories such as Yentl and Gimpel the Fool prove him to be a consummate storyteller and one of the greatest Yiddish writers of the 20th century.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299186944
SKU
V9780299186944
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About Janet Hadda
Janet Hadda is the author of Yankev Glatshreyn and Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature. She is professor of Yiddish at the University of California, Los Angeles and training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.
Reviews for Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hadda [gives] us unique, exciting insights into Singer's creative process. - Leonard Nimoy; The iridescent charm of Isaac Bashevis Singer is such as to give the slip to the very letters of the alphabet, but Janet Hadda has out-tricked the Yiddish trickster in this brief but wonderfully alive-and-kicking biography. The story she tells will entertain, appall, and fascinate. ... Read more