The Penitent (1983) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991). It was originally published in installments in The Jewish Daily Forward (1973) with the Yiddish title of Der Baal Tshuve. The English translation was made by Joseph Singer for Farrar Straus & Giroux. It tells the story of Joseph Shapiro, emigrating from Poland in 1939 and from USSR in 1945 to the United States in 1947, where he becomes rich and involved with consumism and lust, so that he decides to leave everything, including his job, his wife and his lover, and finally expatriate to Israel, where he wonders about the traditional values of Jewish culture.
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| - The Penitent (1983) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991). It was originally published in installments in The Jewish Daily Forward (1973) with the Yiddish title of Der Baal Tshuve. The English translation was made by Joseph Singer for Farrar Straus & Giroux. It tells the story of Joseph Shapiro, emigrating from Poland in 1939 and from USSR in 1945 to the United States in 1947, where he becomes rich and involved with consumism and lust, so that he decides to leave everything, including his job, his wife and his lover, and finally expatriate to Israel, where he wonders about the traditional values of Jewish culture. (en)
- Il penitente (titolo originale: Der Bal-tshuve) è un romanzo di Isaac Bashevis Singer scritto in lingua yiddish nel 1973 per "The Yiddish Daily Forward" (uscito a puntate da gennaio a marzo), e pubblicato in inglese nella traduzione del nipote dell'autore, Joseph Singer, per la prima volta in volume da Farrar Straus & Giroux nel 1983 con il titolo The Penitent. (it)
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| - The Penitent (1983) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991). It was originally published in installments in The Jewish Daily Forward (1973) with the Yiddish title of Der Baal Tshuve. The English translation was made by Joseph Singer for Farrar Straus & Giroux. It tells the story of Joseph Shapiro, emigrating from Poland in 1939 and from USSR in 1945 to the United States in 1947, where he becomes rich and involved with consumism and lust, so that he decides to leave everything, including his job, his wife and his lover, and finally expatriate to Israel, where he wonders about the traditional values of Jewish culture. (en)
- Il penitente (titolo originale: Der Bal-tshuve) è un romanzo di Isaac Bashevis Singer scritto in lingua yiddish nel 1973 per "The Yiddish Daily Forward" (uscito a puntate da gennaio a marzo), e pubblicato in inglese nella traduzione del nipote dell'autore, Joseph Singer, per la prima volta in volume da Farrar Straus & Giroux nel 1983 con il titolo The Penitent. (it)
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