The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Seth L. Wolitz

ISBN 10: 0292728689 / ISBN 13: 9780292728684

Published by University of Texas Press, 2002

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The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer | Seth L. Wolitz | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2002 | University of Texas Press | EAN 9780292728684 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292728689
• ISBN 13: 9780292728684
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 17D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 462 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots.

By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes:

• The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings
• Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's literature
• Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures
• Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings

A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman's new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis's Yiddish "underworld" novel Yarme and Keyle.

About the Author

Seth L. Wolitz (1938–2024) held the L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature.