Figuren un Epizoden fun Litteraten Farayn. Autograph manuscript in Yiddish, pp.198-448, pp.1-197 in facsimile with occasional autograph manuscript corrections.

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

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Lot 327

SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS (Yiddish writer, 1904-1991).

Figuren un Epizoden fun Litteraten Farayn. Autograph manuscript in Yiddish, pp.198-448, pp.1-197 in facsimile with occasional autograph manuscript corrections.

WITH: Autograph Manuscripts of a variety of short stories, most apparantly written for the Jewish Daily Forward, approximately pp.440 (11 stories) and some pp.70 typed stories with autograph manuscript corrections, few newspaper clippings and photocopies, etc. First page of most stories signed by Singer, all loose leaf, occasional wear, 8vo and 4to

New York: c.1970’s

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

“Figures and Episodes” (of the Yiddish Writer’s Club) was Singer’s ongoing episodic literary memoir of Warsaw in the 1920’s. The recipient in 1978 of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Singer’s writing most excels in the shorter form of fiction. Overall, he is no doubt the leading exponent of Yiddish imaginative prose.