The Penitent
Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
 First English-language edition publ. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux | |
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | Yiddish |
Publication date | 1983 |
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The Penitent (1983) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991). It was originally published in installments in The Jewish Daily Forward (1973) with the Yiddish title of Der Baal Tshuve. The English translation was made by Joseph Singer for Farrar Straus & Giroux. It tells the story of Joseph Shapiro, emigrating from Poland in 1939 and from USSR in 1945 to the United States in 1947, where he becomes rich and involved with consumerism and lust, so that he decides to leave everything, including his job, his wife and his lover, and finally expatriate to Israel, where he wonders about the traditional values of Jewish culture.
Sources
- Review on The New York Times by Harold Bloom
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Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Family Moskat (1950)
- Satan in Goray (1955)
- The Magician of Lublin (1960)
- The Slave (1962)
- The Manor (1967)
- The Estate (1969)
- The Golem (1969)
- The Wicked City (1972)
- Enemies, A Love Story (1972)
- Shosha (1978)
- The Penitent (1983)
- The Certificate (1992)
- Meshugah (1994)
- Shadows on the Hudson (1997)
- "Gimpel the Fool" (1956)
- Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966)
- A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1973)
- "The Reencounter" (1983)
- A Day of Pleasure (1969)
- Rencontre au Sommet (1998)
- Yentl (1975)
- The Magician of Lublin (1979)
- Yentl (1983)
- Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
- Love Comes Lately (2007)
- Fool's Paradise (1994)
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