The Golem SIGNED Isaac Bashevis Singer / Illustrated by Uri Shulevitz ~ First Edition 1982

Title: The Golem

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Illustrator: Uri Shulevitz

Description: Inscribed by Singer on front free endpaper. First printing stated. Maroon cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Near Fine in near fine, price clipped, lightly rubbed dust jacket. 10 illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. 83, [3] pages.

''Singer shrewdly recognizes the psychological and philosophical reverberations without underlining, elaborating, or deviating from the straight account... Shulevitz' black-and-white chiaroscuro illustrations, on the other hand, give the events a remote and serious look and emphasize the monumental lifelessness of the golem.'' - Kirkus Reviews

The Golem was originally published in the Jewish Daily Forward in 1969. Singer, the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, worked on this translation, which included many changes, in the autumn of 1981. It was published on November 1, 1982.

The illustrator, Uri Shulevitz (1935-1925) was the winner of the 1969 Caldecott Medal and the recipient of multiple Caldecott Honors. He was born in Poland (as was Singer) and survived the 1939 bombing of Warsaw. He lived in Paris and Israel prior to immigrating to the United States in 1959.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Place: New York
Year: 1982

Keywords: Judaica,