Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
174 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Isaac Bashevis Singer' s first collection of stories, "Gimpel the Fool," is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow' s masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived but who declines to retaliate against his tormentors. Gimpel and the protagonists of the other stories in this volume all inhabit the distinctive...
5) Yentl
Publisher
20th century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Director's extended edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In turn of the century Eastern Europe women are denied higher education. Yentl, with a passion to learn, disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
6) Yentl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Director's extended ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off...
7) Yentl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Director's extended ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision to leave the village and, disguised as a boy and calling herself Anshel, she seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva to study. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas. Her family calls off...