The Spinoza of Market Street, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Spinoza of Market Street, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The Spinoza of Market Street

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Narrator: Theodore Bikel

Unabridged: 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2014

Synopsis

"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is set in Warsaw in the days leading up to World War I. There Dr. Nahum Fischelson lives alone in an attic room overlooking Market Street. From on high he observes the crowd below, showing equal disdain for merchants and thieves alike. Rather than mingle with the people, he devotes his time and energy to explicating the philosophical works of Benedict de Spinoza. But before long he will have to break free of his isolation … and perhaps see what else life has to offer.

About Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) was the author of many novels, stories, children’s books, and memoirs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction in 1989.

About Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel (1924–2015) was an award-winning stage and screen actor, an activist for civil rights and progressive causes worldwide, and a singer whose voice won him critical acclaim. Some of his credits include The Defiant Ones, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, and Fiddler on the Roof.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ on September 03, 2020

2.5 stars A short story collection. I thought several were quite good, and the others were not at all my cup of tea. Several stories in the collection were about the Devil inserting himself/herself/it into the lives of people and wreaking havoc. There are 11 stories. The first one I read I liked a lo......more

Goodreads review by robin on October 01, 2024

Divine Spinoza, Forgive Me ...... I participated in an online book group which devoted two sessions to Rebecca Goldstein's book "Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity". A philosopher and novelist, Goldstein works to discover the elusive individual hidden under the difficult, seemi......more

Goodreads review by Stef on January 13, 2018

The first few stories are very entertaining and amusing but then I got bored by the fact that most have the same setting and subject.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on May 09, 2020

(4.5 stars) I.B. Singer is such a marvelous storyteller. This wasn’t quite a full 5 star book for me because a few of the stories in this collection seemed a little slight, but I'll round up because most of them were terrific. In particular, I loved the title story, A Tale of Two Liars, The Shadow of......more

Goodreads review by Clark on November 19, 2012

"He has white skin but inside he is red. He shouts as if he were strong, but really he is weak and shaky. Throw a stone and he breaks; use a thong and he bleeds. In heat he melts. In cold he freezes. There is a bellows in his chest which has to contract and expand constantly. In his left side is a s......more

Quotes

“Singer’s reputation [has been established] with discerning readers as the most brilliant living representative of the Yiddish language in prose and one of the important contemporary writers in America. '’The Spinoza of Market Street’’ will enhance that reputation.” New York Times

“Sparkling and triumphant, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s stories are filled with wonder, gratitude, humor, irony, and a wry eroticism that manages to exalt the pleasures of the flesh and the soul at the same time.” Washington Post Book World, praise for the author

“Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world.” New Republic, praise for the author

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