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The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer


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Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots. By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes: The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's literature Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel Yarme and Keyle.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Yiddish Language and the Yiddish Cultural Experience in Bashevis's Writings 1. Irving Saposnik. A Canticle for Isaac: A Kaddish for Bashevis 2. Joseph Sherman. Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish Pope 3. Avrom Noversztern. History, Messianism, and Apocalypse in Bashevis's Work 4. Mark L. Louden. Sociolinguistic Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer II. Thematic Approaches to the Study of Bashevis's Fiction 5. Leonard Prager. Bilom in Bashevis's Der knekht (The Slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul) 6. Alan Astro. Art and Religion in Der bal-tshuve (The Penitent) 7. Jan Schwarz. "Death Is the Only Messiah": Three Supernatural Stories by Yitskhok Bashevis III. Bashevis's Interface With Other Times And Cultures 8. Astrid Starck-Adler. Bashevis's Interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of Tales) 9. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska. The Role of Polish Language and Literature in Bashevis's Fiction IV. Interpretations of Bashevis's Autobiographical Writings 10. Nathan Cohen. Revealing Bashevis's Earliest Autobiographical Novel, Varshe 1914-1918 (Warsaw 1914-1918) 11. Itzik Gottesman. Folk and Folklore in the Work of Bashevis 12. Janet Hadda. Bashevis at Forverts V. Bashevis's Untranslated "Gangster" Novel: Yarme un keyle 13. Joseph Sherman. A Background Note on the Translation of Yarme un keyle 14. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yarme and Keyle: Chapter 2, translated by Joseph Sherman Appendix. Seth L. Wolitz and Joseph Sherman. Bashevis Singer as a Regionalist of Lublin Province: A Note Glossary Notes on Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292757905
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0292757905
  • Publisher Date: 06 Dec 2013
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 277


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