Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Polish-born Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate, and New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson collaborated on a surreal feature film made in 1973, entitled Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard. This film was at once a documentary about Singer’s New York and a dramatization of one his short stories. The film grew out of their friendship, as residents of the same building on the upper West Side of Manhattan, and their common interest in New York City street life. During and after production, Davidson made numerous portraits of Singer and also returned to the Lower East Side for a documentary series of photographs. A selection of more than forty of the stunning images made between 1957 and 1990 is available here for the first time in Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson. The book also includes portraits of Singer, stills from the film, the black and white portfolio known as The Garden Cafeteria, and selections from the Lower East Side series. The Garden Cafeteria was a collaboration depicting denizens of the East Broadway restaurant frequented by Singer during his trips to The Jewish Daily Forward. The portfolio has never been published nor exhibited in its entirety—until this volume. Included is an introduction by Singer himself on Davidson’s images, an in-depth interview with Davidson about his art, aesthetic and political views, and his Jewishness, and a reflective, contextual essay by Ilan Stavans on the relevance of this collaboration between the writer and the photographer. Through Davidson’s lens we see Singer’s literary world of Holocaust survivors and émigrés from Eastern Europe—a displaced culture in its twilight. This book is a co-publication and appears in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, on the occasion of the centennial celebration nationwide of Singer's birth in 2004.

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side

Arts & Photography

Bruce Davidson

Ilan Stavans

isaac-bashevis-singer

Individual Artists

University of Wisconsin Press

Irreverent, instructive, and wildly imaginative, this book blends words and images to chronicle more than five centuries of hidden Latino history and culture -- from the first Spanish explorers to the tejano pop star Selena, and everything in between. More than a fascinating history by a renowned academic and writer, it's also a celebration of Latino life. With a distinct pop-culture look and carnival feel, this cartoon guide is for anyone who wants to know more about the contributions and lifestyles of the Latino people -- from serious academics to inquisitive teenagers. Note: "Latino" means Spanish-speaking people who live in the United States, mainly Mexican-Americans (62%), but also Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Columbians, Nicaraguans, and other Central and South Americans.

A Cartoon History of Latininos in the United States

History

Americas

Avon/Books

Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture (Texts and Contexts)

Not Avail

This exhibition, focused primarily on 20th century American picture book art is, in effect, a marriage of purpose and perspective between two cultural institutions, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and The Skirball Cultural Center. Commencing with medieval illuminated Passover Haggadot, the exhibition highlights miraculous themes from biblical stories, imaginary monsters such as dybbuks and golems and tales of the shtetl, the humble Jewish village once found in Eastern Europe. As well as featuring reproductions of the artwork in the exhibit, this catalog contains three essays: "The Jewish Picture Book: A Personal Appraisal" by Ilan Stavans, "The Story Within the Story" by Neal Sokol, and "Friend or Foe? Monsters in Jewish Picture Books" by Tal Gozani.

Monsters & Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books

Neal Sokol

Tal Gozani

Children's Books

The Eric Carle Museum & The Skirball Cultural Center

The Autobiography Of A Brown Buffalo

Biographies & Memoirs

Tangerine Press

{{{ REGULAR TRADE PAPERBACK EDITION ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-91-2 }}} Do you dig humor, comedy, critical theory, literary criticism, philosophy, television, and mass media studies all wrapped up together? Then LAUGHING MATTERS by Latino scholar/writers/artists ILAN STAVANS and FREDERICK ALDAMA is the book for you. Hyperbole Books first volume in the "Chatting Professors/ Catedráticos Charlando" mini-series, LAUGHING MATTERS finds two comedic scholars talking seriously about the ludicrous. Or are they speaking ludicrously about the serious? And does it matter which is which? --&gt;Advance LAUGHING MATTERS raves: "Two academics go into a bar. . . and create one of the most compelling works on laughter since Bergson. In this kinetic tête-à-tête, Aldama and Stavans' conversation weaves effortlessly from the great thinkers on laughter to today's neurobiological insights to offer witty, wide-ranging, and incisive insights into our planet's great creations," says Peter McGraw, director of The Humor Research Lab (HuRL) --&gt; "Our authors scour the world of humor from stand-up Jewish comedians to classic writers such as Cervantes and Rabelais to those, like Freud and Bergson, who have sought to account for why we laugh. The conversational format of this book allows its authors a freedom to range that would be impossible in a more conventional mode of discourse, " states Herbert Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Stanford --&gt; "A delightful and intellectually engaging conversation, Laughing Matters explores the nature of laughter and humor, questioning and expounding on Western European and Latin American literary works that build humor into their pages. In a decidedly erudite manner they take us on a journey through philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Bergson as well as literary geniuses such as Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Borges," affirms María Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCSB

Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor (Regular Trade Paperback Edition)

Frederick Luis Aldama

Hyperbole Books, an SDSU Press Imprint

Do you dig humor, comedy, critical theory, literary criticism, philosophy, television, and mass media studies all wrapped up together? Then LAUGHING MATTERS by Latino scholar/writers/artists ILAN STAVANS and FREDERICK ALDAMA is the book for you. Hyperbole Books first volume in the "Chatting Professors/ Catedráticos Charlando" mini-series, LAUGHING MATTERS finds two comedic scholars talking seriously about the ludicrous. Or are they speaking ludicrously about the serious? And does it matter which is which? --&gt;Advance LAUGHING MATTERS raves: "Two academics go into a bar. . . and create one of the most compelling works on laughter since Bergson. In this kinetic tête-à-tête, Aldama and Stavans' conversation weaves effortlessly from the great thinkers on laughter to today's neurobiological insights to offer witty, wide-ranging, and incisive insights into our planet's great creations," says Peter McGraw, director of The Humor Research Lab (HuRL) --&gt; "Our authors scour the world of humor from stand-up Jewish comedians to classic writers such as Cervantes and Rabelais to those, like Freud and Bergson, who have sought to account for why we laugh. The conversational format of this book allows its authors a freedom to range that would be impossible in a more conventional mode of discourse, " states Herbert Lindenberger, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Stanford --&gt; "A delightful and intellectually engaging conversation, Laughing Matters explores the nature of laughter and humor, questioning and expounding on Western European and Latin American literary works that build humor into their pages. In a decidedly erudite manner they take us on a journey through philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Bergson as well as literary geniuses such as Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Borges," affirms María Herrera-Sobek, Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCSB {SPECIAL LIMITED-EDITION PAPERBACK EDITION ISBN-13: 978-1-938537-97-4}

Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor (Special Limited-Edition Paperback)

Hyperbole Books, an imprint of SDSU Press

Translated to Spanglish by Ilan Stavans, this translation of Le Petit Prince exemplifies the way Spanglish has been "normalized" in the new millennium. It uses a neutral form that results from the convergence of multiple varieties and is commonly used in the media (print, radio, TV, and the Internet). This beloved contemporary classic now feels utterly new and accessible to a different group of readers who deserve it in their own tongue. (96pp. color illus. Edition Tintenfass, 2016.)

El Little Principe (Spanglish Edition)

Edition Tintenfaß

¿Qué es la hispanidad? ¿Cuándo surgió ese vaso comunicante que hace del todo una unidad y de la unidad una multiplicidad? La mejor manera de responder a estas preguntas es a través de un diálogo. Y esto es precisamente lo que hicieron los autores. El debate entre ellos establece los parámetros de la hispanidad desde el momento en que se insertó la palabra por vez primera en un diccionario de la lengua española; hasta sus vicisitudes actuales en varios ámbitos; de la literatura al deporte; de la comida a la televisión; y hace especial hincapié entre los latinos al norte del Río Bravo. El anhelo de este encuentro; inefable quizás; es definir una palabra indefinible. Esa resistencia a la concreción sirve de entrada a las seis conversaciones informativas y polémicas que conforman este libro; en las que el lector no sólo participará como un testigo de la historia multifacética sobre la que se levanta nuestra civilización; sino también como uno de sus partícipes esenciales.

¿Qué es la hispanidad?. Una conversación (Spanish Edition)

Iván Jaksić

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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