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The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer
"... the most incisive study to date of the lesser-known but equally talented Singer: Israel Joshua... " -- Choice "... exceedingly well researched and written... " -- Shofar "This critical examination of the fiction of I.J. Singer is deft in its placement of the novels and short stories in historical context, but with new perspectives on that historical context." -- AJL Newsletter Although Israel Joshua Singer has existed, for English readers, in the shadow of his famous brother, Isaac Bashevis Singer, this book reasserts his rightful place at the center of Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe and America. A comprehensive bibliography of Singer's fiction, essays, and journalism is included.
The Brothers Ashkenazi
In the Polish city of Lodz, the brothers Ashkenazi grew up very differently in talent and in temperament. Max, the firstborn, is fiercely intelligent and conniving, determined to succeed financially by any means necessary. Slower-witted Jacob is strong, handsome, and charming but without great purpose in life. While Max is driven by ambition and greed to be more successful than his brother, Jacob is drawn to easy living and decadence. As waves of industrialism and capitalism flood the city, the brothers and their families are torn apart by the clashing impulses of old piety and new skepticism, traditional ways and burgeoning appetites, and the hatred that grows between faiths, citizens, and ...
The Family Carnovsky
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East of Eden
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Israel Joshua Singer, Volume 1
As one of the most well-known Yiddish writers of the twentieth century, Israel Joshua Singer produced an impressive opus - presented in three volumes in Collected Works - in which he tackles religious, social, and political challenges facing the Jewish people. Unabashedly critical, he does not offer substitutes for what he views as failed ideologies, instead seeing the writer's role in the honest expression of and engagement with this inescapable predicament. This volume contains Singer's first three novels, Steel and Iron (1927), Yoshe Kalb (1932) and The Brothers Ashkenazi (1936). Steel and Iron, his first novel, is a graphic condemnation of existing spiritual and political ideologies, in which the inhabitants of the novel find themselves fleeing from physical and psychic dangers. In Yoshe Kalb, Singer explores questions of identity and addresses what he saw as infertile ground for Jewish life. The Brothers Ashkenazi traverses over a century of cyclical rises and falls of Lodz, with the fate of the city and that of twin brothers pointing to the physical and spiritual instability of Jewish lives in Poland.
The Writer as Exile
Israel Joshua Singer was a household name in the 1920s and 1930s among readers of modern literature. Among novelists writing in Yiddish, he was justly regarded as the premier artist of his time. And while his fame may have been eclipsed by that of his brother, I.B. Singer, Israel Joshua Singer is nonetheless considered one of the significant novelists of the 20th century. In translation, his fiction continues to have worldwide circulation and garner acclaim. The Writer as Exile approaches Singer's work through the political turmoil of his age, giving critical voice to the inner sense of exile that Singer both experienced and explored while fashioning the sufferings of his Jewish characters, their anxieties and alienation.
The River Breaks Up
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Bad Rabbi
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird—Jews who were flung from small, impoverished eastern European towns into the urban shtetls of New York and Warsaw, where, as they say in Yiddish, their bread landed butter side down in the dirt. These marginal Jews may have found their way into the history books far less frequently than their more socially upstanding neighbors, but there's one place you can find them in force: in the Yiddish newspapers tha...
Shadows on the Hudson
From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, "Shadows on the Hudson" traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
