Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author
Series
Library of America volume 149
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 151
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
8) The golem
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[1982]
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II.
15) Yentl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
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...
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--