Ebook {Epub PDF} The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer

In a fourth novel, ''The Slave,'' Isaac Bashevis Singer has written a sort of Jewish ''Pilgrim's Progress.'' It is not a work for all tastes, but it is nobly conceived and well written. Mr. Singer. The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer THE SLAVE Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Isaac Bashevis Singer (Adapter) › Visit Amazon's Isaac Bashevis Singer Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Isaac Bashevis Singer (Adapter), Elizabeth Shub (Translator), Antonio Frasconi (Illustrator) out of 5 stars 4 ratings/5(4).

The Slave was a novel written by Polish author Isaac Bashevis Singer and was published in Singer was born in and died in He won the Nobel Prize for Literature sixteen years after the novel was published. The Slave talks about a Jewish man, called Jacob, who lived in a small village called Josefov in Poland. Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in to a Jewish family in Leoncin village near Warsaw, Poland. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. The exact date of his birth is uncertain, but most sources say it was probably November 11, a date similar to the one that Singer gave to his official biographer Paul Kresh, his secretary Dvorah Telushkin, and Rabbi William Berkowitz. Isaac Bashevis Singer This Study Guide consists of approximately 13 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Slave.

The Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer THE SLAVE Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer. First published in by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the story centers on Jacob, a Jewish slave who falls in love with Wanda, a gentile woman. This propels Jacob on a crisis of faith, as he feels torn between the forces of good and evil. Isaac Bashevis Singer () was the author of many novels, stories, and children's books. His books include The Slave and Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in