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This volume includes a collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer’searly work, including 27 short stories, 7 sketches of early fiction, and arange of critical essays, childhood memoirs, and interviews.

Singer’s early literary career in Warsaw (1925-1935) was cruciallyimportant in laying the building blocks for his great achievements in Jewishand world literature as a storyteller of Polish Jewry. During this period,Singer worked as a journalist, writer and translator in the main Yiddish centerin Eastern Europe. However, much of this work remains unavailable inEnglish-language translation. This volume makes part of Singer’s early fictionand non-fiction available for scholarship, teaching, and a general readershipfor the first time.

A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, IsaacBashevis Singer (1903-1991), was a Polish-born Jewish-American dramatist,novelist, playwright, satirist, and translator. He was awarded the NobelPrize for Literature in 1978. 

Jan Schwarz is Associate Professor and Senior lecturer of  Yiddish at Lund University in Sweden.