Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  • Bibliography:
    66 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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Book List in Order: 66 titles

  • Short Friday: and Other Stories

  • Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories

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    ‘[A] delightful and distinguished book [of seven tales] from middle European folklore [by the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature].' 'BL.

    1967 Newbery Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1940"1970 (ALA)1966 Fanfare Honor ...

  • The Fearsome Inn

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  • The Seance: And Other Stories

  • The Estate

    Stated first printing bound in black cloth. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has rubs to its edges and spine tips. Tanning to its spine. The rear panel is dust soiled and has a 3/4" vertical tear at its lower right corner....

  • Joseph and Koza or the Sacrifice to the Vistula.: Or, the Sacrifice to the Vistula

  • Why Noah Chose the Dove

    “Noah was a righteous man,” says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ark with Noah. In a fresh and lively approach to...

  • Alone in the Wild Forest

  • The Wicked City



  • The Fools of Chelm and Their History

    The town of Chelm is just like every place else, only worse, as numerous shortages, foolish citizens, and inept leaders combine to make life thoroughly miserable. In this whimsical satire, Singer mocks the 'advantages'-such as war, crime, and revolut...

  • The Slave

    Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master''s daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can''t live with...

  • Passions, and Other Stories

    “Through the twenty stories Singer continues to evolve his characters with the sustained scrutiny of kinship and a candlelit intimacy. Physical presences, speech and circumstances flicker into being as sharply as that cosmic instant in each tal...

  • A Tale of Three Wishes

  • Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus and Other Stories

  • Gimpel the Fool: and Other Stories

    Singer's first colleciotn of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark of world literature and attracted international attention when it was first published in 1957. The title story, beautifully translated by Saul Bellow, follows the exploits of gimpel...

  • Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse Sus

  • Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories

    SInger s second collection of stories eleven in all including the title story A Tale of Two Liars and The Destruction of Kreshev BiographyThe great voice of the Yiddish language tradition in modern Jewish literature Isaac Bashevis Singer is best know...

  • The Isaac Bashevis Singer Reader

  • The Magician of Lublin

    The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man's flight from love

    Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, h...



  • The Manor

    This novel portrays the difficulties encountered by traditionalist Jews coming to terms with the social changes that rocked Poland in the late 19th century. The central figure is Calman Jacoby, who stands between the old and the new, unable to embrac...

  • A Friend of Kafka

  • Mazel and Shlimazel: Or the Milk of a Lioness

    A retelling of a classic tale pits Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, against Shlimazel, the wicked spirit of bad luck, in a confrontation that enables a poor but honest lad to win and marry a king's daughter. Reissue....

  • When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories

    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 P...

  • Old Love

    More than twenty stories--displaying the Nobel laureate's mastery of form, his range, and his unpredictability-feature New York writers, clairvoyants, Burial Society workers, fantasizing doctors, and other originals...

  • Crown of Feathers

  • Satan in Goray

    As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, i...

  • The Power of Light

  • Reaches of Heaven

  • A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories



  • Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy

    Recognizing that Yentyl seems to have the soul and disposition of a man, her father studies the Torah and other holy books with her. When he dies, Yentyl feels that she no longer has a reason to remain in the village, and so, late one night, she cuts...

  • The Family Moskat

    The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole commu...

  • The Collected Stories of 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, slic...

  • The Penitent

    Seeking an escape from his unfaithful wife, mistress, and her greedy daughter, prosperous Joseph Shapiro journeys from America to Israel to find salvation and meaning in the traditional Jewish way of life...

  • Yentyl the Yeshiva Boy

    Recognizing that Yentyl seems to have the soul and disposition of a man, her father studies the Torah and other holy books with her. When he dies, Yentyl feels that she no longer has a reason to remain in the village, and so, late one night, she cuts...

  • Gifts

    Gifts is a limited cloth-bound edition of six Singer stories, including “Gifts” in English and its original Yiddish. A beautiful slip-cased book that is perfect for I.B. Singer’s devoted readers....

  • Shosha

    Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at...

  • Love and Exile

    Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York befor...

  • Stories for Children

    Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp."

    Stories for Children is a 1984 New York Times Book Review Notable...

  • Short Friday



  • A Day of Pleasure

  • The Image and Other Stories

    The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.

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  • Enemies, a Love Story

    Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returne...

  • In My Father's Court

    Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father...

  • Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser

  • The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China

    The mean and ugly Emperor Cho Cho Shang orders that everything is to made opposite, with all things kind and decent to be deemed evil and all things evil deemed good, causing the people of China much distress, until a few brave souls defy the emperor...

  • The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories

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    Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including ""Disguised,"" a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969...

  • Shadows on the Hudson

    "A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its cen...

  • Passions

  • More Stories from My Father's Court

    A delightful addition to the cherished autobiographical work of the Nobel Laureate

    A sequel to I. B. Singer's classic memoir In My Father's Court, these stories, published serially in the Daily Forward, depict the beth din in his father's ho...



  • A King of the Fields

    A fictional exploration of primitive history, Singer's novel portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Part parable of modern civilization, part fascinating historical novel, it reaffrims the...

  • Meshugah

    Meshugah, Singer's third posthumous novel, is an impressive work which the author published serially in 1981 - 83. It concerns Holocaust survivors in New York in the early 1950s. The story is narrated by Aaron Greidinger, who finds himself inextri...

  • Scum

    An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the te...

  • The Certificate

    David Bendiner, a young writer and secularized Jew, has qualified to emigrate from Warsaw to Palestine, but he's broke, and in order to make the journey, he must enter into a fictitious marriage with a prosperous woman eager to get there. Grapplin...

  • Collected Stories, Volume 1

    By the time Isaac Bashevis Singer published the three short-story collections gathered in this Library of America volume—A Friend of Kafka (1970), A Crown of Feathers (1973), and Passions (1975)—he had made his ho...

  • One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah

    In 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. Stre...

  • Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer

    Beginning with “Gimpel the Fool,” the story that brought Isaac Bashevis Singer to prominence in America in the 1950s, this Library of America volume is the first of three gathering most of Singer’s short fiction. These stories were published in...

  • The Manor and the Estate

    The Manor and The Estate -- combined in this one-volume edition -- bold tales of Polish Jews in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time of rapid industrial growth and radical social change that enabled the Jewish community to move from t...

  • Collected Stories

  • The Parakeet Named Dreidel

    When young David and Mama and Papa are celebrating Hanukkah one frosty winter evening in Brooklyn, Papa sees a parakeet sitting on the window ledge. He lets the parakeet in and everyone is delighted to find that it speaks Yiddish. They name it Dreide...

  • The Wise Men of Chelm and the Foolish Carp

    When Chelm community leader, Gronam Ox, is given a live carp in honour of his great wisdom, he is delighted. He knows, of course, that eating the brain of a carp increases wisdom and that the size of the tail is indicative of the size of the brain. B...

  • The Spinoza of Market Street

    In his classic followup to his debut story collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to introduce readers to his unique brand of fiction in eleven unforgettable stories. Praise: The most brilliant living represent...

  • Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and Other Stories

    First published as Short Friday and Other Stories, Singer's 1965 collection presents a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader in a rich sensory experience of both bygone and modern life. The collection features some of Singer's mo...

  • Mayses Fun Hintern Oyvn

    Introduction by Marc Caplan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Although it is unsurprising that Isaac Bashevis Singer was the only Yiddish writer chosen for a Nobel Prize in Literature-the only Yiddish writer who will ever be so honored-it is equally unsurpri...

  • Simple Gimpl

    A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story—one of the most influential of the 20th century—about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking reveng...

  • The Cafeteria

    THE CAFETERIA, Based on the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer Adapted by Rhys Adrian 6 characters, doubling permitted Based on Singer's short story, The Cafeteria, which first appeared in English in The New Yorker in 1968, this adaptation was written an...

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, In the World of Chaos

    This volume includes a collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s early work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, and a range of critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews.Singer’s early literary career in Warsaw (...

Award-Winning Books by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Why Noah Chose the Dove
1971 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Children's Literature


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Isaac Bashevis Singer has published 66 books.

Isaac Bashevis Singer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Isaac Bashevis Singer, In the World of Chaos, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Short Friday: and Other Stories, was published in January 1963.

No. Isaac Bashevis Singer does not write books in series.
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