Isaac Bashevis Singer

First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Contemptuous of novels of his time and what he saw as their stereotypical plots and empty characters, Knut Hamsun embarked on "an attempt to describe the strange, peculiar life of the mind, the mysteries of the nerves in a starving body." Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic...

An autobiographical collection of episodes remembered by the son of a rabbi.

Twelve short stories about Jewish life in Poland.

Seven tales that began in middle-European Jewish folklore about the inhabitants of the village of Chelm.

On the eighth night of Hanukkah, a family rescues a Yiddish-speaking, dreidel-playing parakeet.