Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer

When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled. He never did. Mother and child moved first to the USSR and ultimately to Israel, where Zamir grew up on a kibbutz. In 1995, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to meet his father. Singer's strengths and failings, his methods of working, his passion for the Yiddish language, his lust for words, for women, and for life, all come to new light in Zamir's candid and touching account. Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a personal and moving portrait of one of this century's major writers. It is also an honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, and son and father.

Biographies & Memoirs

Zamir, Israel

Arts & Literature

Arcade Publishing

Arcade

When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he settled. He never did. In 1955, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to meet his father. Gradually their mutual trust grew, and Singer came to rely on his son, also a writer, to translate many of his works into Hebrew. Singer’s strengths and failings, his methods for working, his passion of the Yiddish language, his lust for words, for women and for life all come to new light in Zamir’s candid and touching account. An honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a personal and moving portrait of one of the 20th century’s major writers. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Memoir

Selected Plays: Heine, Eichmann's Trial, Passing the Love of Women, The Murder of Isaac, The Admission, Days of War, On the Edge

Literature & Fiction

Lerner, Motti

Dramas & Plays

Playsmith

Mój ojciec Bashevis Singer (Polish Edition)

Oficyna Wydawnicza MOST

Written from the eyes of a soldier, this novel follows a 16-year-old boy “from outside” who comes to the Kibbutz Beth-Alpha boarding school as a 10th grade student in the school year 1945–46. Their class name was “Oren,” meaning pine tree, and they grew up in the shadow of acute political and military confrontations that preceded the War of Independence. When they were in the 12th grade they were called up to serve in the newly founded Golani Brigade as a machine gun platoon in Battalion 13. They took part in the battles of the Jezreel Valley, which exposed them to the bitter truth that they were a small population with insufficient weapons confronted by all the Arab armies. Their forces were sparse, but the fighting spirit of the soldiers made up for the lack in numbers. They knew that if they didn’t stop the enemy’s advance, they would become the sequel to the European Holocaust.

Turn Off the Sun: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Astrolog Publishing House

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