Product Description: A tragicomic novel with two endings! The self proclaimed "Yiddish painter" Ayzik Klass, who lived through the Holocaust, gets his first New York gallery show, but his wife Griselda seems intent on ruining it.
Product Description: The classic anthology of major works, from the Apocrypha to the 18th century "The first anthology in English to attempt an in-depth presentation of Hebrew literature in English translation. ...This volume comes especially recommended...read more
9780827608801 | Jewish Pubn Society, December 9, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The classic anthology of major works, from the Apocrypha to the 18th century "The first anthology in English to attempt an in-depth presentation of Hebrew literature in English translation.
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9780827608818 | Jewish Pubn Society, December 9, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The classic anthology of major works, from the Apocrypha to the 18th century "The first anthology in English to attempt an in-depth presentation of Hebrew literature in English translation.
Product Description: The classic anthology of major works, from the Apocrypha to the 18th century "The first anthology in English to attempt an in-depth presentation of Hebrew literature in English translation. ...This volume comes especially recommended...read more
9780870680793 | Ktav Pub Inc, June 1, 1969, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The classic anthology of major works, from the Apocrypha to the 18th century "The first anthology in English to attempt an in-depth presentation of Hebrew literature in English translation.
Product Description: This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg’s book, it is no exaggeration to claim that the author transformed the centuries-old understanding of the creature of clay and single-handedly created the myth of the golem as protector of the Jewish people during times of persecution...read more
9780300122046 | Yale Univ Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909.
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9780300143201 | Yale Univ Pr, August 19, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909.
Product Description: Expertly translated from the Yiddish by award-winning author and translator Curt Leviant, this edition features the fables printed in both English and Yiddish. Illustrations by Dana Duane Craft (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780815607182 | Bilingual edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Expertly translated from the Yiddish by award-winning author and translator Curt Leviant, this edition features the fables printed in both English and Yiddish.
Product Description: Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is set in Budapest during the Communist era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780299179502 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world.
Product Description: Twenty selections include humorous, touching tales about life in the shtetl, lovingly translated from the Yiddish with all the warmth and spirit of the originals. Features "Progress in Kasrilevke," "Summer Romances," "Birth," "There's No Dead," "Someone to Envy," "Three Widows," "Homesick," "On America," "A Home Away from Home," and more...read more
9780486420509 | Dover Pubns, May 8, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Twenty selections include humorous, touching tales about life in the shtetl, lovingly translated from the Yiddish with all the warmth and spirit of the originals.
The Nobel laureate follows up his successful In My Father's Court with another collection of twenty-eight stories taken mainly from the streets of pre-war Warsaw. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9780374213435 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The author offers a collection of twenty-eight stories depicting events in his father's rabbinical court in pre-war Warsaw.
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9780374527983 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 14, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The Nobel laureate follows up his successful In My Father's Court with another collection of twenty-eight stories taken mainly from the streets of pre-war Warsaw.
9780756784959 | Diane Pub Co, October 30, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A delightful sequel to a cherished autobiographical collection by the Nobel LaureateIn My Father's Court is one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most affecting autobiographical works.
Product Description: Original compilation of 11 stories by a master storyteller brilliantly captures the joy, drudgery, trials and tribulations of Jewish life. Includes "Geese," "At the Doctor's," "Three Widows," "The Passover Eve Vagabonds," "On America," "The Ruined Passover," and 5 others...read more
9780486414195 | Dover Pubns, October 3, 2000, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: Original compilation of 11 stories by a master storyteller brilliantly captures the joy, drudgery, trials and tribulations of Jewish life.
Product Description: Fiction. In Curt Leviant's new tragic-comic novel, PARTITA IN VENICE, "we follow Tommy M., who has written speeches for some Very Important People, in his so-suave, so-certain sophistication toward his so-boorish, so-certain downfall...read more
Product Description: The surprise of this novel lies in its ability to draw the reader in to a quite serious matter, with the lightest of touches. So light and so serious that you will be certain that Leviant's favorite writing instrument must be a quill, not a computer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780942979640 | Livingston Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The surprise of this novel lies in its ability to draw the reader in to a quite serious matter, with the lightest of touches.
A tender Jewish tale follows the story of a young boy named Shimek who finds himself falling in love with Buzie, the daughter of his deceased brother, and due to shyness can only express his feelings through quoting the Bible. 15,000 first printing.
9780684814865 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A boy's tender love for the daughter of his brother, a girl his age.
An internationally idolized, Nobel Prize-winning Jewish writer, as seen through his translator's eyes, is revealed as a man with the normal quota of flaws and the normal shocks that flesh is heir to
9789505150199 | De LA Flor S.R.L., Ediciones, June 1, 1986, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: An internationally idolized, Nobel Prize-winning Jewish writer, as seen through his translator's eyes, is revealed as a man with the normal quota of flaws and the normal shocks that flesh is heir to