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ESTHER KREINDEL THE SECOND
Magical realism.
When a well-loved wife and mother dies she returns in the body of a fourteen-year-old girl, who then begins to mature in a rapid fashion, mentally and physically. She goes to the grieving husband and children of the woman who died and takes her place, an identical copy. Esther Kreindel becomes Esther Kreindel the Second.
— Jul 27, 2023 02:57PM
Magical realism.
When a well-loved wife and mother dies she returns in the body of a fourteen-year-old girl, who then begins to mature in a rapid fashion, mentally and physically. She goes to the grieving husband and children of the woman who died and takes her place, an identical copy. Esther Kreindel becomes Esther Kreindel the Second.
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THE BLACK WEDDING
The most astonishing story. A deep dark midnight story. A horror story.
When a daughter’s parents are taken by dybbuks her marriage to a rabbi’s son is arranged. But when she first sees him under the wedding canopy she realizes immediately that he is a monster.
She cannot escape. His entire family is composed of demons. And they maliciously and gleefully prevail over her.
— Jul 29, 2023 09:55AM
The most astonishing story. A deep dark midnight story. A horror story.
When a daughter’s parents are taken by dybbuks her marriage to a rabbi’s son is arranged. But when she first sees him under the wedding canopy she realizes immediately that he is a monster.
She cannot escape. His entire family is composed of demons. And they maliciously and gleefully prevail over her.
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THE SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET
A shriveled old loner, who holds a doctorate in philosophy, hides away in an attic room reading Spinoza’s ethics, cutting himself off from society. But when a woman steps into his world, marries him, then appears in a silk nightgown on their wedding night, the natural laws of cause and effect Spinoza espoused take effect and the old man rises from the dead.
— Jul 28, 2023 04:07PM
A shriveled old loner, who holds a doctorate in philosophy, hides away in an attic room reading Spinoza’s ethics, cutting himself off from society. But when a woman steps into his world, marries him, then appears in a silk nightgown on their wedding night, the natural laws of cause and effect Spinoza espoused take effect and the old man rises from the dead.
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GIMPEL THE FOOL
Everyone deceives Gimpel. His wife, the devil, his apprentice, everyone. Yet he plows on without rancor, grudges or bitterness, though he has plenty of reasons to harbor all of that. Well read and well written in very much a “Tevye Yiddishy” kind of way.
— Jul 27, 2023 01:56PM
Everyone deceives Gimpel. His wife, the devil, his apprentice, everyone. Yet he plows on without rancor, grudges or bitterness, though he has plenty of reasons to harbor all of that. Well read and well written in very much a “Tevye Yiddishy” kind of way.
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Four stories: Gimpel the Fool; The Spinoza of Market Street; Esther Kreindel the Second; The Black Wedding.
Not my first reading of Singer’s work but most of these stories are new.
I’ll begin with Gimpel.
— Jul 27, 2023 12:54PM
Not my first reading of Singer’s work but most of these stories are new.
I’ll begin with Gimpel.
