This collection presents the reader with several stories by one of the most interesting writers of our century - the American prose writer and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1978) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991). Singer is recognized as an outstanding master of the short story. It is in this genre that his talent and worldview are most fully revealed. His creative style is characterized by the contrast of high and low, comic and tragic. The passions and coldness of eternal doubt, subtle irony and the constant awareness of the transience of such a desired and cruel, but essentially vain life - these are the components of the specific atmosphere of his stories. The originality of the writer’s work is determined by the amazing fusion of traditional religious and the most modern ideas, and the breadth of historical experience of life in Europe and America throughout almost the entire century, and the feeling of the presence of Eternity in this life.