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Shosha, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, follows aspiring author Aaron Greidinger in 1930s Warsaw's Hasidic quarter as he navigates friendship, love, and identity.

A Yiddish novel by Israel Joshua Singer, originally serialized in the Forward in 1934-35 and later translated into English; it follows the life of the Ashkenazi brothers across Poland and New York, gaining bestseller status in 1936.

In Isaac Bashevis Singer’s tale, a clay golem animated by a rabbi rises in Prague to protect a Jewish banker unjustly accused by Emperor Rudolf II.

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. from: http://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Court-Isaac-Bashevis-Singer/dp/0374505926/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340037828&sr=1-1&keywords=In+my+father%27s+court+singer

A portrait of Jewish life in London’s Whitechapel, where traditional beliefs clash with modern society.

A collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories, featuring Jewish life, humor, and moral reflection.

Isaac Bashevis Singer loved to give interviews. He was famous for encouraging interruptions of the solitary task of writing. These twenty-four welcomed interruptions are representative of the many he allowed over a twenty-five-year period. Included here are his conversations with such interviewers as Irving Howe, Laurie Colwin, Richard Burgin, and Herbert R. Lottman. In these talks Singer discusses the nature of his writing, its ethnic roots, his demonology, the importance of free will, and the place of storytelling in human life. The interviews with Singer reveal both his impish sense of humor and a determination that sustained him through many years of limited acclaim and comparative neglect by critics. Yiddishists often faulted him for refusing to use his talent as a force for change in the world, Jewish readers often deplored his use of pre-Enlightenment folk material, and academics could not take too seriously a writer who insisted on telling stories that emphasized plot and character. Yet he was not deterred from his astonishing and beloved work, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

A vibrant collection of Yiddish short stories and sketches by Sholem Aleichem, depicting the everyday lives of Jewish adults and children in diverse settings such as schools, workplaces, holidays, and rail cars.