New Releases by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Joseph Shapiro, a New York businessman, experiences a mid-life crisis. He leaves his wife, his mistress, his business and goes to Israel in search of religious Orthodoxy.

This a selection of forty-seven stories chosen by the [Nobel-Prize-winning] author from eight prior collections [1957-1981].

Eight Stories for Hanukkah.

Autobiography of Singer as an adult.

Translated by from Yiddish by Roger H. Klein and others.

"This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as ''in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience''. Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred"--

When their wishes fail, three children learn that they must deserve by effort what they had wanted to get too easily.

"Noah was a righteous man," says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ark with Noah. In a fresh and lively approach to the age-old account, Isaac Bashevis Singer sets down the dialogue of the animals as they vie with one another for a place on the Ark.

CONTENTS.- A friend of Kafka.- Guests on a winter night.- The key.- Dr. Beeber.- Stories from behind the stove.- The cafeteria.- The mentor.- Pigeons.- The chimney sweep.- The riddle.- Altele.- The joke.- The primper.- Schloimele.- The colony.- The blasphemer.- The wager.- The son.- Fate.- Powers.- Something is there.

Seven tales which had their beginnings in middle-European Jewish life.

Sequel to the manor. Translated from the Yiddish.

Two witches, who practice their evil trade on lost travelers, are banished through the wisdom of a student of the holy cabala, and the power of his magic chalk.

Like Isaac Bashevis Singer''s fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer''s pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer''s childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him.

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.