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Isaac Bashevis Singer Fall 2011 Ilan Stavans Ext.8201 [email protected] Office Hours: TTh, 2-3 pm Books Isaac Bashevis Singer, Collected Stories, ed. Ilan Stavans, 3 vols. (Library of America) [CC1, CC2, CC3] _____, The Slave (Noonday) _____, Satan in Goray (Noonday) _____, Shadows on the Hudson (Noonday) _____, Stories for Children (Noonday) Online Isaac Bashevis Singer, In My Father’s Court. _____, Interviews. Film Paul Mazursky, Enemies: A Love Story. Bruce Davidson, Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard. Schedule September Tuesday 6 Introduction Thursday 8 In My Father’s Court [online] Tuesday 13 Gimpel the Fool, The Gentlemen from Cracow, The Wife Killer [CC1] Thursday 15 The Spinoza of Marker Street, A Tale of Two Liars, The Destruction of Kreshev [CC1] Tuesday 20 Satan in Goray Thursday 22 Satan in Goray Tuesday 27 Taible and Her Demon, Alone, Esther Kreidel the Second, A Wedding in Brownsville, Short Friday [CC1] Thursday 29 The Séance, The Slaughterhouse, The Lecture, The Plagiarist, The Parrot, The Letter Writer [CC1] October Tuesday 4 A Fried of Kafka, The Cafeteria, The Joke, The Colony, The Blasphemer, The Son [CC2] Thursday 6 Interviews [online] Midterm Paper due Tuesday 11 Fall Break Thursday 13 The Slave Tuesday 18 The Slave Thursday 20 A Crown of Feathers, A Day in Coney Island, The Captive, The Briefcase, The Cabalist of East Broadway, The Prodigy, The Beard [CC2] Tuesday 25 Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard [film] Thursday 27 Hanka, Old Love, Errors, The Admirer, Sabbath in Portugal, The Witch, Sam Palka and David Vishkover [CC2] November Tuesday 1 A Tale of Two Sisters, The Fatalist, The Gravedigger, Moishele, The Adventure, Passions [CC2] Thursday 3 Enemies: A Love Story [film] Tuesday 8 Shadows in the Hudson Thursday 10 Shadows in the Hudson Tuesday 15 Stories for Children Thursday 17 Stories for Children Tuesday 22 Thanksgiving Break Thursday 24 Thanksgiving Break Tuesday 29 One Night in Brazil, The Psychic Journey, Two Weddings and One Divorce, The Betrayer of Israel, The Manuscript [CC3] December Thursday 1 Advice, The Bond, The Interview, The Enemy, On the Way to the Poorhouse [CC3] Tuesday 6 A Telephone Call on Yom Kippur, The Image, The Jew from Babylon, The Recluse, The Accuser and the Accused, The Impresario [CC3] Final Paper due Thursday 8 The Hotel, Dazzled, Sabbath in Gehenna, The Bird, The Building Project, The Mathematician [CC3] Tuesday 13 Conclusion Grade Attendance and Class Participation 30% Presentation 15% Midterm Paper 15% Final Paper 40% .

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THE MAGICIAN of LUBLIN by Isaac Bashevis Singer
THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN by Isaac Bashevis Singer AUTHOR’S BIO Isaac Bashevis Singer immigrated to the United States in 1935, which was the year of his first novel Satan in Goray. Since then, he wrote in Yiddish more or less exclusively about the Jewish world of pre-war Poland, or more exactly, about the Hasidic world of pre-war Poland, into which he was born, the son of a rabbi, in 1904. Singer published his autobiography in four volumes: In My Father’s Court (1966), A Little Boy in Search of God (1976), A Young Man in Search of Love (1978), and Lost in America (1981). His best-known novels include The Magician of Lublin (1960), The Slave (1962), Enemies, a Love Story (1972), and Shosha (1978). In 1978, Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The citation praised him for his art in narrative and noted that although the background of his works was the Polish-Jewish tradition, they revealed the human condition, which transcends cultural barriers. In his acceptance speech, Singer commented on the values that he had learned from the humble people whom he had known in childhood, who spoke in a vanishing tongue, the language of a people in exile. After a series of strokes, Singer died in Surfside, Florida, on July 24, 1991. ABOUT THE BOOK The Magician of Lublin Written in 1958, serialized in 1959, and published in English in 1960, The Magician of Lublin also deals with human passions, but it is not overcast with the gloom of past events. It reflects an expansiveness often missing in Singer’s works.
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And Other Stories. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Old Love: And Other Stories. Isaac Bashevis Singer 2001. 0099286467, 9780099286462. Old Love: And Other Stories. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Vintage, 2001. 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. file download cebuxe.pdf Aug 1, 1979. 320 pages. Isaac Bashevis Singer. ISBN:0374515387. 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.". Fiction. A Friend of Kafka Old Love: And Other Stories pdf download ISBN:0140048073. The magician of Lublin. 1980. Fiction. 200 pages. Isaac Bashevis Singer Love: pdf download The Manor. ISBN:0299205444. Fiction. 1979. Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Manor and The Estatecombined in this one-volume editionbold tales of Polish Jews in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time of rapid industrial growth and. 818 pages. & the Estate Short Friday. And Other Stories. 256 pages. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Fiction. ISBN:0374504407. 1964 Fiction. ISBN:9780374531539. The Penitent. 176 pages. Isaac Bashevis Singer. Nov 26, 2007. 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 pdf file May 16, 2003. ISBN:0374529116. Passions. 324 pages. Fiction. Isaac Bashevis Singer download ISBN:0374506809.
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Bibliothèque Nobel 1978 Bernhard Zweifel Isaac B. Singer Geburtsjahr 1904 Todesjahr 1991 Sprache jiddisch Begründung: for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life Zusatzinformationen Sekundärliteratur • Jante Hadda, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1997) • Grace Farrell (ed.), Critical Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer (1996) • Lawrence S. Friedman, Understanding Isaac Bashevis Singer (1988) • David Neal Miller, Recovering the Canon (1986) • R. Burgin, Conversations with I saac Bashevis Singer (1985) • David Neal Miler, Fear of Fiction (1985) • C. Sinclair, The Brothers Singer (1983) • C.M. Eastley, The Singer Saga (1983) • E. Alexander, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1980) • P. Kresh, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1979) • I. Malin, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972) • I rving Malin (ed.), Critical Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1969) • Stefana Sabin, Zwischen den Sprachen - Zum 100. Geburtstag von Isaac Bashevis Singer, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2004) Film The Magician of Lublin 1979, dir. by Menahem Golan, starring Alan Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Valerie Perinne, Shelley Winters. - "Curious muddled fable with apparent correspondences to the Christ story, like Bergman's The Face." (Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2001, 2000) Werkverzeichnis Der Kunstnmakher fun Lublin [1959] Belletristik Kukeriku [1959] 1960 - 1969 A Tale of Two Sisters 178.0002 Dos feygele [1960] A Tale of Two Sisters 178.0003 Di shvarts hasene [1960] Grandfather and Grandson Aleyn [1960] Der zurikgeshrigener [1960] 1930
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Dvorah Telushkin: An Inventory of Her Collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Telushkin, Dvorah, 1954- Title: Dvorah Telushkin Collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer Papers Dates: 1951-1998 Extent: 7 boxes, 2 galley folders (2.94 linear feet) Abstract: Dvorah Telushkin’s Isaac Bashevis Singer materials date from 1951 to 1998 and include Singer's manuscripts; clippings and tearsheets of his published work; galley proofs, reviews, and correspondence; clippings of articles about Singer; royalty statements, lecture contracts, and receipts; one contact sheet; an award program; notes; and works by other authors. RLIN Record TXRC06-A24 ID: Language: English, Yiddish, Hebrew Access: Open for research Administrative Information Acquisition: Gift, 2002 (G 12122) Processed by: Katherine Mosley, 2006 Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Telushkin, Dvorah, 1954- Biographical Sketch Dvorah Telushkin was born February 12, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush and studied at Bard College and Columbia University. Telushkin met author Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1975, when she was twenty-one years old and unable to afford the cost of a creative writing course that Singer was teaching at Bard College. She wrote to Singer, offering to drive him between Manhattan and the college in return for auditing the class. This led to a position as his personal secretary and assistant that lasted for twelve years. Telushkin’s first marriage was to photojournalist Abraham Menashe, with whom she has one daughter. She married Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in 1988; they have three children and currently reside in New York.
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