Isaac Bashevis Singer

A novel on post-World War II Jewish refugees in New York. It is centered on the Makavers, a prosperous family torn by scandal. Anna, their daughter, has left her husband and taken up with a married man.

Set in various parts of the globe and permeated with references to Jewish life in prewar Poland, these 18 stories are quintessantial Singer, with their characteristic mixture of homely details and metaphysical omens, cosmic coincidences and insoluble dilemmas, dybbuks and angels, curses and enchantments. His characters dream and have vision, lust, pray, exist in the mundane world, but have intimations of a higher reality. The three stories "Elka and...

Joseph Shapiro, a New York businessman, experiences a mid-life crisis. He leaves his wife, his mistress, his business and goes to Israel in search of religious Orthodoxy.

A romantic triangle involving survivors of the Holocaust, set in New York City in the 50s. It was serialized in the Yiddish newspaper, Forward, under the title Lost Souls.

Translated by Roger H. Klein and others. CONTENTS: The seance.- The slaughterer.- The dead fiddler.- The lecture.- Cockadoodledoo.- The plagiarist.- Zeitl and Rickel.- The warehouse.- Henne Fire.- Getzel the monkey.- Yanda.- The neelde.- Two corpses go dancing.- Tha parrot.- The brooch.- The letter writer.