Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally shortened often shorn of much description and religious matter and their perspectives and denouements are significantly altered In short they turn the Yiddish author into a Jewish American English writer detached from of his Eastern European Jewish literary and cultural roots By contrast this collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis The essays are grouped around four themes The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis s writings Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis s literature Bashevis s interface with other times and cultures Interpretations of Bashevis s autobiographical writings A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of Joseph Sherman s new faithful translation of a chapter from Bashevis s Yiddish underworld novel Yarme and Keyle

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