Isaac Bashevis Singer by Janet Hadda

Isaac Bashevis Singer by Janet Hadda

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This biography explores the life and work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1978, he was perhaps the greatest Yiddish writer of the 20th century, a profoundly important voice in world literature, and an invaluable witness to the vanishing culture of Eastern European Jews.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer by Janet Hadda

Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1978, was perhaps the greatest Yiddish writer of the 20th century, a profoundly important voice in world literature, and an invaluable witness to the vanishing culture of Eastern European Jews. He was also a consummate storyteller. In such short stories as "Gimpel the Fool", "Short Friday", and "Yentl", and such acclaimed novels as "The Family Moskat" and "Enemies, A Love Story", Singer combined a subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom, and an unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. In doing so, he brought before the English-speaking world the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry and provided an insight into human character and culture.
Janet Hadda is the author of Yankev Glatshteyn 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.
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ISBN 13 9780195084207
ISBN 10 0195084209
Titre Isaac Bashevis Singer
Auteur Janet Hadda
État Non disponible
Éditeur Oxford University Press Inc
Année de publication 1997-04-17
Nombre de pages 254
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