Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah, edited by Ilan Stavans (Editor) Discount the ambiguities of Jewish acculturation

the ambiguities of Jewish acculturation

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Rebecca Margolis shows that the city's vibrant Yiddish culture is the legacy of a driven group of the city's Jews who devoted themselves to the revitalization of the Jewish community

Translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

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Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah, edited by Ilan Stavans (Editor) Discount the ambiguities of Jewish acculturationIn the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories written in Yiddish decades earlier. Stretching back to The Jew from Babylon, a story first published in 1932, and gathering tales such as Brother Beetle and There are No Coincidences from the 1960s, the works collected in this Library of America