Isaac Bashevis Singer

Bibliography of Stories, Novels, Plays,
Memoir & Nonfiction, and Books for Children

Stories

Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, translated by Saul Bellow and others (New York: Noonday, 1957).

The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories, translated by Martha Glicklich, Cecil Hemley, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961).

Short Friday and Other Stories, translated by Joseph Singer, Roger H. Klein, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964).

Selected Short Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, edited by Irving Howe (New York: Modern Library, 1966).

The Seance and Other Stories, translated by Roger H. Klein, Cecil Hemley, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968).

A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elizabeth Shub, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970).

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Laurie Colwin, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973).

Passions and Other Stories, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Blanche Nevel, Joseph Nevel, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975).

Old Love, translated by Joseph Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979).

The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982).
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, translated by Marion Magid and Elizabeth Pollet (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983).

The Image and Other Stories, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elizabeth Pollet, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985).

Gifts (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985).

The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lester Goran, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988).

Novels

The Family Moskat, translated by A. H. Gross (New York: Knopf, 1950).

Satan in Goray, translated by Jacob Sloan (New York: Noonday, 1955).

The Magician of Lublin, translated by Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph Singer (New York: Noonday, 1960).

The Slave, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Cecil Hemley (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962).

The Manor, translated by Joseph Singer and Elaine Gottlieb (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967).

The Estate, translated by Joseph Singer, Elaine Gottlieb, and Elizabeth Shub (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969).

Enemies, A Love Story, translated by Aliza Shevrin and Elizabeth Shub (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972).

Shosha, translated by Joseph Singer and Isaac Bashevis Singer (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978).

The Penitent, translated by Joseph Singer (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983).

The King of Fields, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988).

Scum, translated by Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991).
The Certificate, translated by Leonard Wolf (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992).

Meshugah, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Nili Wachtel (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994).

Shadows on the Hudson, translated by Joseph Sherman (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998).

Plays

Yentl: A Play, with Leah Napolin (New York: Samuel French, 1977).

Teibel and Her Demon, with Eve Friedman (New York: Samuel French, 1984)

Memoirs and nonfiction

In My Father's Court, translated by Channah Kleinerman-Goldstein, Elaine Gottlieb, and Joseph Singer (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966).

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, translated by Channah Kleinerman-Goldstein and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969).

A Little Boy in Search of God; or, Mysticism in a Personal Light, translated by Joseph Singer (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976).

A Young Man in Search of Love, translated by Joseph Singer (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978).

Nobel Lecture (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979).

Reaches of Heaven: A Story of the Baal Shem Tov (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980).

Lost in America, translated by Joseph Singer (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981).

Love and Exile, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984)—collects A Little Boy in Search of God; or, Mysticism in a Personal Light; A Young Man in Search of Love; and Lost in America.

My Love Affair with Miami Beach, photographs by Richard Nagler (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991).

More Stories from My Father's Court, translated by Curt Leviant (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000).

For children

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, translated by Elizabeth Shub and Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrated by Maurice Sendak (New York: Harper & Row, 1966).

Mazel and Shlimazel; or, The Milk of a Lioness, translated by Elizabeth Shub and Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrated by Margot Zemach (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967).

The Fearsome Inn, translated by Elizabeth Shub and Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian (New York: Scribners, 1967).

When Shemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Margot Zemach (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968).

Elijah the Slave: A Hebrew Legend Retold, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Antonio Frasconi (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970).

Alone in the Wild Forest, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Margot Zemach (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971).

The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Julian Jusim (New York: Harper& Row, 1971).

The Wicked City, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972).

The Fools of Chelm and Their History, translated by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Uri Shulevitz (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973).

Why Noah Chose the Dove, translated by Elizabeth Shub, illustrated by Eric Carle (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974).

A Tale of Three Wishes, illustrated by Irene Lieblich (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975).

Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus, and Other Stories, translated by Joseph Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976).

The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980).

The Golem (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982).

Stories for Children (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984).

Shrew Todie and Lyzer the Miser & Other Children's Stories (Boston: Barefoot Books, 1994).

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