The Spinoza of Market Street
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 214, [2] p.; 21 cm. This is the author's second collection of stories. tales of Yiddish culture and Jewish people. This is to great extent a collection of Weird Tales, including "Destruction of Kreshev" (Satan narrates his successful destruction of a heroine; it was the first story Singer completed in America); "Man Who Came Back" (return from the dead); "Tale of Two Liars" (imps); "Black Wedding" (demons; demonic pregnancy); "Shiddah and Kuziba" (a demoness and her son); "The Beggar Said So" (powers); "In the Poorhouse" (magician). Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He also was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards." Condition: Good in poor dust jacket. DJ is worn, torn, soiled with part of the front missing.
Keywords: Jews, Siddah, Kuziba, Yiddish, Kreshev, Poorhouse, Spinoza, Nahum Fischelson, Demons, Magician
[Book #70209]
Price: $50.00