Isaac Bashevis Singer: His Work and His World

A quarter of a century after Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature it is time to take stock of his achievement. Penetrating studies of his fictional and autobiographical works by leading scholars in the field reveal that for all the acclaim he has received on the basis of the English versions of his works, no adequate evaluation of Bashevis's significance can be made without careful examination of the original Yiddish texts. Critical readings assess "inter alia his themes and motifs, the impact of Kabbalah on his work, reflections of society in his original Polish homeland as well as his place within the context of contemporary Jewish American letters and the canon of modern Yiddish and Hebrew writing.

About the author

Hugh Denman is Ben-Zion Margulies Lecturer in Yiddish Studies, University College London, and author of numerous articles on Yiddish language and literature in scholarly journals and entries in standard reference works. He is also a Guest Professor at the Universities of Venice, Innsbruck, Budapest and Cracow.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hugh Denman (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2002
• EAN: 9789004125643
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12564-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 247 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: IJS Studies in Judaica
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism