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The Manor and The Estate combined in this one-volume edition bold tales of Polish Jews in the latter half of the nineteenth century, a time of rapid industrial growth and radical social change that enabled the Jewish community to move from the ghetto to prominent positions within Polish society.

Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him.

"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its center is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman whose greatest trial is his unstable daughter, Anna. A chain of events disrupts the lives of the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present, as Singer explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love in the aftermath of the...

The Penitent tells the story of Jospeh Shapiro, his rapid climb to prosperity, his quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subsequent flight to Israel in order to find salvation.

Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York before the outbreak of war, with the concomitant displacement of a Yiddish writer in a strange land.

»'Zufall' ist kein koscheres Wort.« - Joseph Shapiro lebt mit seiner Frau Celia als wohlhabender Geschäftsmann in New York. Angestachelt von seinem Umfeld, lässt er sich zu erotischen Abenteuern verleiten und hat schließlich eine Geliebte, die ihm mit ihrer Tochter das Geld aus der Tasche zieht. Irgendwann beginnt er zu zweifeln, sein Leben erscheint ihm zunehmend geistlos und leer. Auf der Suche nach dem rechten Weg verlässt er die Frauen und wandert nach Israel aus, wo er als »Büßer« ein neues Leben beginnen will. Doch schon zu Beginn der Reise zeigt sich,...