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Author(s): Seth Wolitz
ISBN(s): 9780292796188, 0292796188
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 6.51 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 029279147X

ISBN 13: 978-0292791473

Author: Seth L. Wolitz

Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened, often shorn of much description and religious matter, and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered. In short, they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish-American English writer, detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots.

By contrast, this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis. The essays are grouped around four themes:

  • The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis’s writings
  • Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis’s literature
  • Bashevis’s interface with other times and cultures
  • Interpretations of Bashevis’s autobiographical writings

A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman’s new, faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis’s Yiddish “underworld” novel Yarme and Keyle.

Table of contents:

Part 1. The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis’s writings

  1. A Canticle for Isaac: A Kaddish for Bashevis – Irving Saposnik

  2. Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish Pope – Joseph Sherman

  3. History, Messianism, and Apocalypse in Bashevis’s Work – Avrom Noversztern

  4. Sociolinguistic Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer – Mark L. Louden

Part 2. Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis’s fiction
5. Bilom in Bashevis’s Der knekht (The Slave): A Khaye hot oykh a Neshome (An Animal Also Has a Soul) – Leonard Prager
6. Art and Religion in Der bal-tshuve (The Penitent) – Alan Astro
7. “Death Is the Only Messiah”: Three Supernatural Stories by Yitskhok Bashevis – Jan Schwarz

Part 3. Bashevis’s interface with other times and cultures
8. Bashevis’s Interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of Tales) – Astrid Starck-Adler
9. The Role of Polish Language and Literature in Bashevis’s Fiction – Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

Part 4. Interpretations of Bashevis’s autobiographical writings
10. Revealing Bashevis’s Earliest Autobiographical Novel, Varshe 1914-1918 (Warsaw 1914-1918) – Nathan Cohen
11. Folk and Folklore in the Work of Bashevis – Itzik Gottesman
12. Bashevis at Forverts – Janet Hadda

Part 5. Bashevis’s untranslated “gangster” novel: Yarme un Keyle
13. A Background Note on the Translation of Yarme un Keyle – Joseph Sherman
14. Yarme and Keyle: Chapter 2 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Joseph Sherman

Appendix
15. Bashevis Singer as a Regionalist of Lublin Province: A Note – Seth L. Wolitz and Joseph Sherman

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