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].

Autobiography of Singer as an adult.

These stories with Jews as central characters range in locale from Europe and the Middle East to America.

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"--

"The Nobel Prize-winning author again gives us a collection of stories that children will read and reread."-Children''s Book Review Service

This book of twenty stories is Isaac Bashevis Singer''s fifth collection and contains such classics as "The Cafeteria" and "On the Way to the Poorhouse."

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.

A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler''s Holocaust and is living in New York with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive.

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

Sequel to the manor. Translated from the Yiddish.

Translation of: Mayn otaotn''s beas-din-shotub.

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.

As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray.