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BL
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953860
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b708230
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| Title & Author
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The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer /\ edited by Seth L. Wolitz.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Austin :: University of Texas Press,, 2001.
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| Series Statement
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Literary modernism series
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1 online resource (xxvii, 240 pages) :: illustrations, maps.
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| ISBN
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0292796188
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: 9780292796188
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029279147X
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9780292791473
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings. A canticle for Isaac: a Kaddish for Bashevis / Irving Saposnik ; Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish pope / Joseph Sherman ; History, messianism, and apocalypse in Bashevis's work / Avrom Noversztern ; Sociolinguistic views of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Mark L. Louden -- pt. 2. Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's fiction. Bilom in Bashevis's Der knekht (The slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul) / Leonard Prager ; Art and religion in Der bal-tshuve (The penitent) / Alan Astro ; "Death is the only messiah": three supernatural stories by Yitskhok Bashevis / Jan Schwarz -- pt. 3. Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures. Bashevis's interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of tales) / Astrid Starck-Adler -- The role of Polish language and literature in Bashevis's fiction / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska -- pt. 4. Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings. Revealing Bashevis's earliest autobiographical novel, Varshe 1914-1918 (Warsaw 1914-1918) / Nathan Cohen ; Folk and folklore in the work of Bashevis / Itzik Gottesman ; Bashevis at Forverts / Janet Hadda -- pt. 5. Bashevis's untranslated "gangster" novel: Yarme un keyle. A background note on the translation of Yarme un keyle / Joseph Sherman ; Yarme and Keyle: chapter 2 / Isaac Bashevis Singer, trnaslated by Joseph Sherman -- Appendix. Bashevis Singer as a regionalist of Lublin province: a note / Seth L. Wolitz and Joseph Sherman.
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| Subject
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis,1904-1991-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis,1904-Critique et interprétation.
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis,1904-1991.
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| Subject
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Yiddish literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Jewish.
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Yiddish literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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839/.133
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| LC Classification
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PJ5129.S49Z697 2001eb
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| Added Entry
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Wolitz, Seth L.
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