Title: The Dead Fiddler
Title Record # 1490941
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Date: 1968-05-25
Variant Title of: Der toyter klezmer [Yiddish] (1966) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Current Tags: fantasy (1), supernatural (1), Dybbuk (1), Jewish (1), Shtetl (1), possession (1), Poland (1), Pre WWII (1), Yiddish (1), translation (1)
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Date: 1968-05-25
Variant Title of: Der toyter klezmer [Yiddish] (1966) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Translated by Mirra Ginsburg
Synopsis: "The spirit (dybbuk) of a musician inhabits the body of a 17-year-old girl. When she opens her mouth, his voice comes out. The spirit bewitches the community, exposing their dirty secrets and captivating them with ribald tales. This continues for several nights until the usually sedate and religious village becomes a carnival of dancing and anarchy. The girl's parents are traumatized and call on several rabbis to exorcise the dybbuk. Instead another spirit, this time a dead prostitute, enters the girl's body and fights with the fiddler for sole occupancy." (The Isaac Bashevis Singer website)
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Current Tags: fantasy (1), supernatural (1), Dybbuk (1), Jewish (1), Shtetl (1), possession (1), Poland (1), Pre WWII (1), Yiddish (1), translation (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Seance and Other Stories | 1968-00-00 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $5.95?$: US dollar |
[4]+ 276 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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| The New Yorker, May 25, 1968 | 1968-05-25 | ed. Editors of the New Yorker | unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown. |
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| The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1982-02-00 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 0-374-12631-3 |
viii+ 610 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection | 1986-00-00 | ed. Clifton Fadiman | Houghton Mifflin | 0-395-36805-7 |
xiii+ 847 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |
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| The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1987-00-00 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 0-374-51788-6 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
viii+ 610 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | |
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| Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic | 1991-01-00 | ed. Alberto Manguel | Clarkson N. Potter | 0-517-57559-0 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
xx+ 941 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | George Tooker | |
| White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature | 1991-04-00 | ed. Alberto Manguel | Picador | 0-330-31380-0 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
xx+ 941 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | George Tooker | |
| Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer | 2004-07-00 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | The Library of America (The Library of America #149) | 1-931082-61-8 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
x+ 789 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer | 2008-07-10 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Paw Prints | 978-1-4395-1293-7 | $29.00?$: US dollar |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll |