Isaac Bashevis Singer has written 97 work(s)
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Product Description: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire. He owned a fine house and had a wife, Esther, who was devoted to him. Life was good, but Yasha was destined to find God and to discover faith, and there was no middle road...read more
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9780899661568 | Buccaneer Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic—a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from loveYasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland.
9780374196332, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1979), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Caught between his eagerness to win fame and fortune as a performer and his reluctance to give up his easy life of pleasure, a late-nineteenth-century Polish magician and holy man finds himself on the brink of disaster
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9780449214794 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, September 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781893079175, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Unabridged edition (Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc, September 1, 2002), cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire.
9781893079076, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Abridged edition (Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc, November 1, 2000), cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Caught between his eagerness to win fame and fortune as a performer and his reluctance to give up his easy life of pleasure, a late-nineteenth-century Polish magician and holy man finds himself on the brink of disaster.
9780886461874, titled "The Magician of Lublin" | Dh Audio, March 1, 1987, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Yasha could perform tricks, shell peas with his toes, dance on the tightrope and turn somersaults on the high wire.
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The award-winning author writes of his boyhood in Warsaw, between 1908 and 1918, recounting tales of his family and neighbors and of Warsaw's aroma-laden, crowded Krochmalna Street, where foolishness and thievery mixed with wisdom and wonder
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9780374416966 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1986), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
Reinforced:
9780606221979 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
Prebinding:
9780833512574 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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9780374506803 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1988), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter.
9780449206942, titled "Slave" | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1984), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A Jewish slave living in seventeenthcentury Poland, wrestles with his conscience over his love for his barbarous master's daughter
CD/Spoken Word:
9781893079120 | Unabridged edition (Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc, November 1, 2001), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: A Jewish slave living in seventeenth-century Poland, wrestles with his conscience over his love for his barbarous master's daughter.
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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: In My Father's Court is one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most affecting autobiographical works.
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9780374504403 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2000, cover price $20.00
9780449211045 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, November 1, 1985), cover price $2.95
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9788466600002 | Ediciones B, May 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
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9788426434043 | Lumen Editorial, April 1, 1998, cover price $9.95
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9780613097192 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.95
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9780374348847, titled "Mazel and Shlimazel: Or the Milk of a Lioness" | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1979), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The now classic tale about the conflict between Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, and Schlimazel, the wicked old spirit of bad luck
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9780374447861, titled "Mazel and Shlimazel or the Milk of a Lioness" | Sunburst, September 1, 1995, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The now classic tale about the conflict between Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, and Schlimazel, the wicked old spirit of bad luck
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9780613083287 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: The now classic tale about the conflict between Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, and Schlimazel, the wicked old spirit of bad luck
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9780613024860 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95
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9780374372668 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1984, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a town's foolish elders, three wishes, a terrible blizzard, a witch, a miser, and war refugees
9780374372675 | Limited edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1984), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp.
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9780374464899 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1985), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a town's foolish elders, three wishes, a terrible blizzard, a witch, a miser, and war refugees
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9780833599087 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Tells the stories of a town's foolish elders, three wishes, a terrible blizzard, a witch, a miser, and war refugees
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9788427931435 | Noguer Y Caralt Editores, April 1, 1998, cover price $9.50
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9788426435743 | Lumen Editorial, April 1, 1998, cover price $15.95
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9789004076815 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $101.00
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9780374519926 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1997, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York before the outbreak of war, with the concomitant displacement of a Yiddish writer in a strange land.
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9780374135638 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be.
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9780140186987 | Reprint edition (Plume, August 1, 1997), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories that deal with Jewish folklore and legend
9780452262157 | Plume, November 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Nobel Prize-winner Singer's 10th collection of short stories demonstrates "the same vigor that he has shown throughout his long career" (New York Times) and reaffirms his place as an extremely popular and enduring author.
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A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's holocaust and is living in America with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive
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9780451166630 | Mti edition (New Amer Library, December 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's holocaust and is living in America with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive
9780374515225 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: 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
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9780374327415 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1982, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II.
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9780374427467 | Sunburst, October 1, 1996, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II
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9780374254049 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1955, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780374524791 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 31, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Mistaken messianic fervor in the seventeenth-century Polish Jewish community of Goray results in mass hysteria, licentiousness, and the appearance of the Devil.
9780449243268 | Fawcett Books, August 1, 1980, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: 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.
9780374500825 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1979), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Mistaken messianic fervor in the seventeenth-century Polish Jewish community of Goray results in mass hysteria, licentiousness, and the appearance of the Devil
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Hardcover:
9780374263362 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An aspiring young writer in Warsaw, during the 1930s, finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women
Paperback:
9780374524807 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 30, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An aspiring young writer in Warsaw during the 1930s finds a wealthy American backer for the play he is writing and attempts to sort out his emotional involvement with four very different women
9780374521424 | Reissue edition (Noonday Pr, October 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation.
9780449208083 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1984), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation.
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9780374475888 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1996, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The mean and ugly Emperor Cho Cho Shan, determined to be considered the most handsome and noble man in China, declares that everything is to be the opposite of what it was, so that evil, ugliness, and stupidity are to be the most admired qualities in hiskingdom.
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Hardcover:
9780374149000 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1969, cover price $6.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786108084 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1995), cover price $56.95
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9780374520809 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1987), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Two tales, The Manor and The Estate, chronicle the lives of three generations of the Jacoby family against the advent of modern civilization in nineteenth-century Poland
9780380430420 | Avon Books, April 1, 1979, cover price $6.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786107049 | Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $62.95
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Hardcover:
9780517122730 | Random House Value Pub, February 1, 1995, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Three unabridged novels by a Nobel Prize-winning author include The Slave, Enemies: A Love Story, and Shosha.
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Hardcover:
9780873385060 | Kent State Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Telling the story of an extraordinary friendship, a close friend and translator of the eminent Polish-American author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, offers understanding of the moral dimensions of Singer's art and his struggles with loss, age, and fame.
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9781569579275 | Random House Childrens Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $6.00
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