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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. |
'''''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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- For the play by David Mamet see The Penitent.
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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