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by Roman Vishniac,Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Roman Vishniac,Isaac Bashevis Singer

ISBN13:

978-0374416966

ISBN:

0374416966

Language:

English

Publisher:

Square Fish (May 1, 1986)

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Young Adults

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Education & Reference

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Singer has written an extraordinary book that will give many days of pleasure to adults as well as children," PW stated

Singer has written an extraordinary book that will give many days of pleasure to adults as well as children," PW stated. These are sensitive, youthful and observant portraits of what Jewish life was like in Poland. In his inimitable style, Singer wrote a series of short stories about growing up in Warsaw before, during and just after World War I. Perhaps they were aimed at younger readers, perhaps not. They don't deal with much mystery, love, sex, or death, but instead with daily life, poverty, Jewish and Polish characters around him, and with childhood explorations.

A Day of Pleasure book. An ALA Notable Book .

Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904-1991). Vishniac, Roman (1897-1990). Books for People with Print Disabilities.

Published in 1969, it is a series of 19 short stories written by Singer depicting his childhood growing up in the Jewish area of Warsaw. In each chapter, a different story is detailed, with a focus on specific people Singer encountered in his neighborhood during this period.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer. The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, and childrens books. Author: Isaac Bashev Singer. Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. What Our Readers Are Saying.

Growing up in Warsaw with Mr. Singer offers more than a day of pleasure to families who joined him In My Father's Court, from which fourteen of these . Stories Of A Boy Growing Up In Warsaw. Singer offers more than a day of pleasure to families who joined him In My Father's Court, from which fourteen of these nineteen episodes are adapted. by Isaac Bashevis Singer & photographed by Roman Vishniac.

By (author) Isaac Bashevis Singer, By (photographer) Roman Vishniac. The award-winning author writes of his boyhood in Warsaw, between 1908 and 1918, recounting tales of his family and neighbors and of Warsaw's aroma-laden, crowded Krochmalna Street, where foolishness and thievery mixed with wisdom and wonder show more. Close X. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter.

Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw. Isaac Bashevis Singer; Photographs by Roman Vishniac. Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book

Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw. Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book. The author lays out a panorama of Jewish life in the city- the rabbis in black velvet and gabardine, the shopkeepers, the street urchins and schoolboys, the poverty, the confusion, the excitement of the prewar time.

Singer Isaac Bashevis. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. org to approved e-mail addresses. Singer Isaac Bashevis. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. 1. A Day on the Mountain.

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A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.

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19 beautifully told anecdotes and rememberances of a childhood in the Jewish districts of Warsaw, of a young boy trying to make sense of the magical world around him against the background of the fast changing World of the twentieth century, where a world war, new realisms- political social and scientific- are sweeping away the old. And soon to come is the greatest horror of all that will end this world of Bashevis Singers childhood.
'A Day of Pleasure' won a national childrens book award, but it is a book for all ages to enjoy and gain the love of learning and literature that Bashevis Singer inspires. Beyond the religious culture and rites that differentiate people there is a universal rite of passage that all people go through growing up in a big strange world that Bashevis Singer captures perfectly. The book also has photographs taken by Roman Vishnial of the jewish community in Warsaw between 1930-39 that adds flavour to the world Bashevis Singer writes of and reminds of a World thats gone.
Easily read (in a day of pleasure!) this is hugely enjoyable weather its the first Bashevis Singer you read or-like me-one after many others. I would recommend this to anyone who loves great literature.Excellent.

Kecq

This book along with "Stories and more stories from my fathers court" form the basis of understanding Singers orthodox childhood and the trauma of his all to human conflict between doubt and belief.

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This was a fun and engaging book. I was looking for more of a reason why he became a writer, but it was good and informative about the times while he was growing up.Interesting.

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Zulkigis

A slow read, but a fascinating look into the life of a young Jewish boy.

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best read!!

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In his inimitable style, Singer wrote a series of short stories about growing up in Warsaw
before, during and just after World War I. Perhaps they were aimed at younger readers,
perhaps not. They don't deal with much mystery, love, sex, or death, but instead with daily life, poverty,
Jewish and Polish characters around him, and with childhood explorations. They are as smooth
and effortless as the rest of his work, wonderful evocations of a time gone by, and of the Hasidic culture
that has disappeared from Europe and has been transformed in America and Israel. You meet rabbis, washerwomen, schoolboys, and goose dealers. The divide between those who wanted to stick to tradition and those who wanted to modernize had already opened. Singer's father belonged to the former, his older brother to the latter. The great political changes that swept Poland in those years are seen from a child's point of view, a child who moved from the country to 10 Krochmalna Street in Warsaw, and then ultimately to Austria-Hungary to avoid hunger during WW I. You will appreciate the many photographs of Polish Jewish life taken by Roman Vishniac in the 1930s, before the Holocaust swept the world of my ancestors away forever.

This is one of the most beautiful autobiographical works I have ever read. Singer tells of his Polish childhood in such a simple and yet moving yet. This book is an example of what a great writer can do even using a simple straightforward narrative - technique and quite uncomplicated language. The opening story tells of a child filled with wonder and question, whose curiosity knows no rest. It sets the tone for the whole book. The tone is a kind of wonder at and hunger for life. There is innocence, curiosity and a deep feeling for people and for the world.

One of the most moving chapters is the one on Asher the Milkman, a simple pious man who saved the Singer family when their house was on fire, and they were asleep. This Asher is described in a such a loving way, a strong person, a modest person, a learned person and one not without sorrows and family tragedies.

This is Singer's concluding paragraph of this story.

"After we left Warsaw(during the First World War), we continued to her news of him from time to time. One son died, a daughter fell in love with ayoung man of low origins and Asher was deeply grieved. I do not know whether he lived to see the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. he probably died before that. But such Jews as he were dragged off to the death camps. May these memoirs serve as a monument to him and his like , who lived in sanctity and died as martyrs."

Singer tells of his love of storytelling, and in doing so he also tells of the friends of his childhood who shared this passion with him. One Shosha is the subject of the last story in the collection which tells of his making a visit to his old neighborhood in Krochmalna Street and meeting there a seeming duplicate of the Shosha he knew. It is her daughter.

Singer also tells a great deal about his childhood , the conflict between his demon- dreaming father and his rational mother the daughter of the Rebbe of Bilgoray. He tells of his older brother Israel Joshua Singer who essentially inspired and encouraged his own writing. He tells of his being filled with questions and his meeting with the work of Spinoza which seemed to answer so many questions at the time.

This review cannot begin to do justice to this work. It does not give its real feeling.

This is a book which makes the reader love life more and want to live more. The spirit of Singer and of the child whose story he tells is of a person so hungry for life, so appreciative of what he sees and knows of the world. It is a work created in a tone of wonder.

What a masterpiece.

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