Teibele and Her Demon

Teibele and Her Demon

Eve Friedman, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Teibele and Her Demon

Teibele and Her Demon

Eve Friedman, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Overview

In a Polish Jewish village about a hundred years ago lives Teibele, a young attractive woman whose husband has deserted her and apparently disappeared. So Teibele can't remarry until he's legally declared dead. Enter the "demon" who's actually Alchonon, a woe begone, unemployed scholar despised by Teibele. But he knows of her fascination for biblical demons and their powers and devises an audacious plan to woo and win her in the dark. Thus he seduces the passionate Teibele and comes to adore her. But Alchonon wants to marry her and a domesticated demon would be too much for even guileless Teibele to accept. So Alchonon devises another scheme to make this come about but it wouldn't be fair to tell you the outcome.

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  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

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Eve Friedman

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903 - 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American author of short stories, novels, essays, cultural criticism, memoirs, plays and stories for children. In a career spanning nearly seven decades, he wrote in Yiddish and translated his work into English wit ...

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