Why Noah Chose the Dove? Исаак Башевис Зингер Почему Ной выбрал голубя? Russian Children's Book
Среди зверей прошел слух, но на ковчег Ной возьмет только самых лучших. Поднялся страшный гвалт: все от мала до велика стали нахваливать себя.
В этой книге всемирно известный писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии Исаак Башевис Зингер рассказал для детей старую библейскую историю на новый лад.
This bible history was retold by well-known writer Isaak Bashevis Singer. His books read all over the world both adults, and children. He has received the most honourable for the writer the award – the Nobel Prize.
Originality Bashevis handwriting, his artistic discoveries embodied in the “adult” novels and stories, and easily recognizable in the works for children.
Simplicity and directness of language intonation eliminate the distance between the text and the reader little, give reading intimate, personal character.
All these qualities are the author’s style could not be more appropriate stories that Singer often draws from Jewish religious literature.
Such is the story of Noah and the dove – in different variations can be found in rabbinic literature.
Growing up in a rabbinical family and received a traditional Jewish education, Bashevis Singer knew this literature and borrowed from her conviction of Jewish identity and universal. In his works, he remained faithful to the spiritual values of the Jewish tradition and its humanistic pathos .