The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

isaac bashevis singer

The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

Genres short storiesfictionjewishclassicsliteraturepolandnobel prizepolish literaturejudaism20th century

624 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1982

Literary awards

los angeles times book prize,

This edition

Format: 624 pages, Paperback
Published: August 1, 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374517885
ASIN: 0374517886
Language: English

About the author

isaac bashevis singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.