“Enemies. Love Story" is one of the most popular novels by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991), which has also become widely known thanks to film adaptations and dramatizations (the latter at the Moscow Sovremennik Theater). Until now, this work was known to the Russian reader only in translated from its not entirely accurate English version. Now admirers of the work of the outstanding writer have the opportunity to read the full text of the novel translated from the language in which it was written, that is, from Yiddish, and not from an abbreviated and adapted English translation.

Those Jews who miraculously survived in the flames of the Catastrophe, came out of it forever burned. They are unable to adapt to a peaceful and prosperous life in the United States and cannot find a common language with American Jews. The catastrophe is not only the death of six million, but also the slow death of those who survived. This tragic change in fate became the main theme of the novel “Enemies. A Love Story,” one of the best in the legacy of the outstanding writer of the 20th century, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991). Nobel Prize winner in literature Isaac Bashevis Singer, who left Poland shortly before World War II, became the voice of the lost Polish Jewry. His work is well known to the Russian reader. However, the problem of the “Russian” Singer is that his works were often translated from translations into English that were shortened and adapted to the perception of the American reader. It was in this translation that the novel “Enemies” became known in Russia. Love story". The translation that is in front of you was made from Yiddish, from the original edition of the novel, which was published in the newspaper “Forverts” (“Forward”) in 1966. Fans of Bashevis Singer's work will now be able to read this novel exactly as it was written more than half a century ago.