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==Published works== '''Note:''' Publication dates refer to English editions, not the Yiddish originals, which often predate the versions in translation by 10 to 20 years. ===Novels === * ''[[Satan in Goray]]'' (serialized: 1933, book: 1935)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|דער שטן אין גאריי}} * ''Eulogy to a Shoelace''—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|די קלײנע שוסטערלעך}} * ''[[The Family Moskat]]'' (1950)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|די פאמיליע מושקאט}} * ''[[The Magician of Lublin (novel)|The Magician of Lublin]]'' (1960)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|דער קונצנמאכער פון לובלין}} * ''[[The Slave (Singer novel)|The Slave]]'' (1962)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|דער קנעכט}} * ''[[The Manor (novel)|The Manor]]'' (1967) * ''[[The Estate (Singer novel)|The Estate]]'' (1969) * ''[[Enemies, a Love Story]]'' (1972)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|שׂונאים. געשיכטע פֿון אַ ליבע}} * ''[[The Wicked City (Singer novel)|The Wicked City]]'' (1972) * ''[[The Fools of Chelm and Their History]]'' (Yiddish: 1967, English: 1973) * ''[[Shosha (novel)|Shosha]]'' (1978) * ''Old Love'' (1979) * ''Reaches of Heaven: A Story of the Baal Shem Tov'' (1980) * ''[[The Penitent]]'' (1983)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|דער בעל תשובה}} * ''Teibele and Her Demon'' (1983) (play) * ''The King of the Fields'' (1988) * ''Scum'' (1991) * ''[[The Certificate]]'' (1992)<ref name="oxfordscholarship.com">{{cite book| url = http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112030.001.0001/acprof-9780195112030-chapter-13| title = The Perils of Translation: Isaac Bashevis Singer| chapter = The Perils of Translation: Isaac Bashevis Singer in English and Hebrew| year = 1997| publisher = Oxford University Press| doi = 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112030.003.0013| isbn = 978-0-19-511203-0| last1 = Mendelsohn| first1 = Ezra| pages = 228–233}}</ref> * ''Meshugah'' (1994)<ref name="oxfordscholarship.com"/> * ''[[Shadows on the Hudson]]'' (1997) ===Short story collections=== * ''Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories'' (1957)—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|גימפּל תּם}} * ''The Spinoza of Market Street'' (1961) * ''Short Friday and Other Stories'' (1963) * {{cite book <!-- this is required by referencing, do not convert to text --> |last=Singer |display-authors=0 |title=The Séance and Other Stories |date=1968a}} * ''A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories'' (1970) * ''[[A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories]]'' (1974)—shared the National Book Award, fiction, with ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' by [[Thomas Pynchon]]<ref name=nba1974>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1974 "National Book Awards – 1974"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-26.<br />With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.</ref> * ''Passions and Other Stories'' (1975) * ''Old Love'' (1979) * {{cite book <!-- this is required by referencing, do not convert to text --> |last=Singer |display-authors=0 |title=The Collected Stories |date=1982}} * ''The Image and Other Stories'' (1985) * ''The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories'' (1988) ===Juvenile literature=== * ''[[Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories]]'', illustrated by [[Maurice Sendak]] (1966) – runner up for the [[Newbery Medal]] (Newbery Honor Book)<ref name=newbery>[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111024135429/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal.cfm |date=October 24, 2011 }}. [[Association for Library Service to Children]]. ALA. Retrieved April 19, 2012.</ref> * ''Mazel and Shlimazel'', illus. [[Margot Zemach]] (1967) * ''The Fearsome Inn'', illus. [[Nonny Hogrogian]] (1967) – Newbery Honor Book<ref name=newbery/> * ''[[When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories]]'', illus. Margot Zemach (1968) – [[Newbery Medal|Newbery Honor Book]]<ref name = newbery />—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|ווען שלימואל איז געגאנגען קיין ווארשע}} * ''[[The Golem (Singer novel)|The Golem]]'', illus. [[Uri Shulevitz]] (1969) * ''Elijah the Slave: A Hebrew Legend Retold'', illus. [[Antonio Frasconi]] (1970) * ''Joseph and Koza: or the Sacrifice to the Vistula'', illus. [[Symeon Shimin]] (1970) * ''Alone in the Wild Forest'', illus. Margot Zemach (1971) * ''The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China'', illus. [[William Pène du Bois]] (1971) * ''The Wicked City'', illus. [[Leonard Everett Fisher]] (1972) * ''The Fools of Chelm and Their History'', illus. Uri Shulevitz (1973) * ''Why Noah Chose the Dove'', illus. [[Eric Carle]] (1974) * ''A Tale of Three Wishes'', illus. [[Irene Lieblich]] (1975) * ''Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus'', illus. Margot Zemach (1976) * ''The Power of Light – Eight Stories for Hanukkah'', illus. Irene Lieblich (1980) * ''Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'', illus. Uri Shulevitz (1983) * ''Stories for Children'' (1984) – collection * ''Shrew Todie and Lyzer the Miser and Other Children's Stories'' (1994) * ''The Parakeet Named Dreidel'' (2015) ===Nonfiction=== * ''The Hasidim'' (1973) ===Autobiographical writings=== * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=In My Father's Court | orig-year = 1963 |place=NY |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=1967}}—Yiddish original: {{Lang|yi|מיין טאטנ'ס בית דין שטוב}} * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=A Day of Pleasure, Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw |place=New York |publisher=Doubleday |year=1969}}. National Book Award, Children's Literature<ref name= nba1970>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1970 "National Book Awards – 1970"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved February 8, 2012.</ref> * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=A Little Boy in Search of God |place=New York |publisher=Doubleday |year=1976}}. * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=A Young Man in Search of Love |place=New York |publisher=Doubleday |year=1978}}. * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=Lost in America |place=New York |publisher=Doubleday |year=1981}}. * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=Love and exile |place=New York |publisher=Doubleday |year=1984}}. * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=More Stories from My Father's Court |place=NY |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=1999}} ===Short stories=== * {{Citation |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=The New Winds |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |place=NY |year=1963}}. * {{Citation |journal=The Hudson Review, 20th Anniversary Issue |title=Zeitl and Rickel |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |others=[[Mirra Ginsburg]] transl. |volume=21 |number=1 |date=Spring 1968 |pages=127–37 |jstor=3849538 |doi=10.2307/3849538}}. ===Collected works=== * {{Citation | editor-last = Stavans | editor-first = Ilan |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=Stories |volume=1 |publisher=[[Library of America]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-931082-61-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781931082617}}. * {{Citation | editor-last = Stavans | editor-first = Ilan |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=Stories |volume=2 |publisher=[[Library of America]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-931082-62-4 | author-mask = 3 | editor-mask = 3 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781931082624}}. * {{Citation | editor-last = Stavans | editor-first = Ilan |first=Isaac Bashevis |last=Singer |title=Stories |volume=3 |publisher=[[Library of America]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-931082-63-1 | author-mask = 3 | editor-mask = 3 | url-access = registration |url=https://archive.org/details/collectedstories0000sing}}. ===Films and stage productions based on Singer's work=== * ''[[Enemies, A Love Story (film)|Enemies, A Love Story]]'' (1989) * ''[[Love Comes Lately]]'' (2007) * ''[[The Magician of Lublin (film)|The Magician of Lublin]]'' (1979) * ''[[Yentl (film)|Yentl]]'' (1983) * ''Mr. Singer's Nightmare or Mrs. Pupkos Beard''<ref>[http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/warsaw/w_pages/warsaw_stories_singer.html "Warsaw Stories"] (various reprints beginning with a version of this biography). Eilat Gordin Levitan.</ref> * ''[[Fool's Paradise (opera)|Fool's Paradise]]''
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