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Mark ist Mathematiklehrer an einem Warschauer Mädchengymnasium. Seine unauffälligste und schlechteste Schülerin heißt ausgerechnet Bella. Doch auf einem Gebiet ist sie überbegabt: auf dem der Gefühle. Ihre magischen Kräfte lösen in Mark eine leidenschaftliche Begierde aus. Hoffnungslos verfällt er dem jungen Mädchen … Geboren 1904 im polnischen Radzymin als Sohn eines Rabbiners und 1935 nach Amerika ausgewandert, machte Isaac Bashevis Singer die jiddische Literatur zur Weltliteratur.

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.

This timeless saga traces the intertwined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York City after World War II. A chain of events disrupts the close-knit community as each refugee struggles to reconcile the horrific past with the difficult present and explores both the nature of faith and the nature of love. Marriages and affairs fall apart; age and death take their toll; the wisdom of the scripture and kabbalah and the precepts of the great philosophers and avatars of modern science are passionately debated in extended conversations that seethe with drama. 

Singer's famous and never-before-recorded novel about a passionate, forbidden love affair between Jew and Gentile in 17th century Poland.

The Magician can dazzle the crowds with his sleight of hand, climb to any height, open any lock. Fearlessly, he does death-defying tricks in theaters all over Poland. At home, his sweet Jewish wife waits for him to return from the city. In the city, his adoring mistresses wait for him to return from home. He holds the key to all hearts, but his own is beset with confusion.

The late Nobelist's masterpiece takes a candid look into the lives of Holocaust survivors during the late 40s. Set in New York City, Shadows on the Hudson, Volume 1, the first in a four volume audiobook series, draws us into the intertwined lives of a circles of prosperous Jewish refugees.

Corre el año 1911 cuando Keyle, una prostituta judía, conoce al amor de su vida, Yarme, ex convicto. La joven pareja sueña con escapar de la miseria del gueto de Varsovia, donde viven bajo la constante amenaza de los pogromos, así que cuando Max, un viejo conocido, les ofrece participar en sus lucrativos negocios en Sudamérica, no lo dudan ni un momento. Pero Max también se siente atraído por Yarme, y surge un funesto triángulo amoroso que atormentará a Keyle tanto en las oscuras calles del gueto como en las avenidas de una gran ciudad estadounidense.

The late Nobelist's masterpiece takes a candid look into the lives of Holocaust survivors during the late 40s. Set in New York City, Shadows on the Hudson, Volume 2, the second in a four volume audiobook series, draws us into the intertwined lives of a circle of prosperous Jewish refugees.

The late Nobelist's masterpiece takes a candid look into the lives of Holocaust survivors during the late 40s. Set in New York City, Shadow on the Hudson, Volume 4, the fourth in a four volume audiobook series, draws us into the intertwined lives of circle prosperous Jewish refugees. At the center is Boris Makaver, a pious and wealthy businessman. His greatest trial is his daughter, Anna.

El año designado por los cabalistas como el de "el fin de los tiempos" ha llegado, avivando las esperanzas judaicas en el advenimiento de su mesías. Y el redentor de los dispersos hijos de Israel aparece en Goray, una pequeña ciudad situada en la provincia de Lublin. Su nombre es Sabbatai Zevi, a quien todos se preparan para seguir sin reservas, abandonando sus hogares en el destierro, hasta que las dudas son más grandes que la fe y el temor a la muerte, más grande que el anhelo de la salvación.

La primera colección de relatos de Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel, el tonto, es un hito en la literatura universal que ganó el aplauso unánime de la crítica desde su publicación en 1957. La historia que da título a este volumen nos acerca a las proezas de Gimpel, un ingenuo panadero que es sistemáticamente engañado por su comunidad pero se niega a tomar represalias contra sus victimarios. Los protagonistas que desfilan por estas páginas dan vida al prodigioso universo creado por la prosa inigualable de su autor. 

In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would meet other Polish and Russian immigrants. In the fifties, a woman named Esther became part of their group. Although she had been in a Russian prison camp and now had taken a menial job to support her cripple father, she was cheerful and outgoing. She and the author became good friends, but each time he saw her, she looked more disenchanted; her father died, she was often ill, and she worried about her sanity.

A talkative New Yorker corrals a writer at a cocktail party and forces him to listen to the story of her life. A co-production with the National Jewish Theater. Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in July 1992.

Corre l’any 1911 quan la Keile, una prostituta jueva, coneix l’amor de la seva vida, en Iarme, un expresidiari. La jove parella somia fugir de la misèria del gueto de Varsòvia, on viuen sota l’amenaça constant dels pogroms, així que quan en Max, un antic conegut, els ofereix de participar en els seus negocis lucratius a Amèrica del Sud, no ho dubten ni un moment.