The Certificate

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Other authorsLeonard Wolf (Translator)
Paperback, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

813

Collection

Publication

Penguin Classics (1999), Paperback, 240 pages

Description

David Bendiner, a young writer and secularized Jew, has qualified to emigrate from Warsaw to Palestine, but he's broke, and in order to make the journey, he must enter into a fictitious marriage with a prosperous woman eager to get there. Grappling with romantic, political and philosophical turmoil, David must also confront his faith when his father, an Orthodox rabbi, shows up in Warsaw.

Language

Original language

Yiddish

Physical description

240 p.; 7.6 inches

ISBN

0140187855 / 9780140187854
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