ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
COLLECTED STORIES: GIMPEL THE FOOL to THE LETTER WRITER Gimpel the Fool & Other Stories The Spinoza of Market Street Short Friday & Other Stories The Seance & Other Stories
S . Contents
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957) Gimpcl the Fool, 5 The Gentleman from Cracow, 20 The Wife Killer, 37 By the Light of Memorial Candles, 51 The Mirror, 60 The Little Shoemakers, 69 Joy, 93 From the Diary of One Not Born, 103 The Old Man, 112 Fire, 122 The Unseen, 129 The Spinoza of Market Street (1961) The Spinoza of Market Street, 159 The Black Wedding, 177 A Tale of Two Liars, 186 The Shadow of a Crib, 206 Shiddah and Kuziba, 229 Caricature, 235 The Beggar Said So, 244 The Man Who Came Back, 254 A Piece of Advice, 264 In the Poorhouse, 272 The Destruction of Kreshev, 284
Short Friday and Other Stories (1964) Taibelc and Her Demon, 333 Big and Little, 344 Blood, 353 Alone, 371 Esther Kreindcl the Second, 381 Jachid and Jechidah, 398 Under the Knife, 406 The Fast, 420 X CONTENTS
The Last Demon, 429 Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, 439 Three Tales, 464 Zeidlus the Pope, 477 A Wedding in Brownsville, 488 I Place My Rcliancc on No Man, 502 Cuncgunde, 511 Short Friday, 519
The Seance and Other Stories (1968) The Seance, 535 The Slaughterer, 546 The Dead Fiddler, 558 The Lecture, 586 Cockadoodledoo, 602 The Plagiarist, 610 Zcitl and Rickel, 623 The Warehouse, 635 Henne Fire, 643 Getzcl the Monkey, 654 Yanda, 663 The Needle, 673 Two Corpses Go Dancing, 682 The Parrot, 695 The Brooch, 712 The Letter Writer, 724
Chronology, 757 Note on the Texts, 778 Glossary and Notes, 784