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Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album (paperback)

Edited by Ilan Stavans

“Singer was a humorist steeped in tragedy, a post-Holocaust chronicler who often wrote as if the Holocaust hadn’t happened, a Jewish writer at war with the Jewish culture he memorialized, and, most remarkable of all, a Yiddish master who became one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. . . . It’s remarkable how naturally Singer fits into the American literary tradition.”—Jonathan Rosen, The New Yorker

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Overview

Influences Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Isaac Bashevis Singer’s world is my own
April 23, 2018

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) is the most famous Yiddish writer of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential and important Jewish-American writer ever. Here, to coincide with Singer’s Centennial and the release of Collected Stories, is a useful, handy, and beautifully illustrated guide to the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer featuring contributions from some of today’s leading writers.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album presents images from the Singer Centennial Exhibition, which will travel around the country throughout 2004. Drawn from the remarkable collection of Singer papers, memorabilia, and artifacts held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Singer Centennial Exhibition will visit Massachusetts, Florida, and New York. Serving in part as the print companion to the exhibit, Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album will feature color reproductions of many imagessome published here for the first timeas well as detailed captions.

But the Album is more than a companion to the exhibition. It features Singer’s brief memoir of his arrival in America, as well as appreciations of and anecdotes about Singer from some of today’s leading writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Francine Prose, Nicholas Dawidoff, Harvey Shapiro, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. These writers share personal recollections of Singer, reveal his influences on their own work, and speculate on the secrets of his enduring appeal and lasting legacy.

Ilan Stavans, editor, is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His other books include The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories and, most recently, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages.

To listen to a conversation between Ilan Stavans and NPR’s Robert Siegel, please click here.

This full-color paperback edition has been printed on acid-free paper.

Audio: Listen to a 2004 panel discussion, “The Imaginary World of Isaac Bashevis Singer,” featuring Ilan Stavans, editor of LOA’s Singer edition, and Library of America Publisher Max Rudin (1 hr., 9 min.).

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ISBN: 978-1-931082-64-8 128 pages

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