Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author
Pub. Date
[1968]
Description
Eight stories based on traditional Jewish themes from Eastern Europe include: Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser; Tsirtsur & Peziza; Rabbi Leib & the Witch Cunegunde; The Elders of Chelm & Genendel's Key; Shlemiel, the Businessman; Utzel & His Daughter Poverty; Menaseh's Dream; When Shlemiel went to Warsaw.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"In addition to 'Gimpel the Fool, ' this volume--drawn from Singer's first four English-language collections of stories originally published in the 1950's and 1960's--contains some of Singer's most beloved and admired tales: 'The Spinoza of Market Street,' 'The gentleman from Cracow,' 'Taibele and Her demon,' and Yentyl the Yeshiva boy,' the basis of a hit Broadway play and the film 'Yentl'."--JACKET
18) Yentl
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off...
19) Yentl
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off...
