The Certificate

The Certificate book cover

The Certificate is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published in English in 1992 (published in Yiddish in 1967). David, a poor, young Yiddish writer wishes to emigrate to Palestine from Poland, and because married couples are given preference, he tries to arrange for a marriage certificate to be purchased for him by a wealthy woman whose fiancee lives in Palestine. The narrative deals with the abject poverty of David, as well as his Jewish heritage, and details the rise of both Communism and Zionism.

Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Novels	The Family Moskat (1950) Satan in Goray (1955) The Slave (1962) The Manor (1967) The Estate (1969) The Golem (1969) The Wicked City (1972) Enemies, a Love Story (1972) Shosha (1978) The Penitent (1983) The Certificate (1992) Meshugah (1994) Shadows on the Hudson (1997)

Short stories	"Gimpel the Fool" (1956) Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966) A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1973) "The Reencounter" (1983)

Non-fiction	Rencontre au Sommet (1998)

Plays	Yentl (1975)

Works adapted into films	The Magician of Lublin (1979) Yentl (1983) Enemies, a Love Story (1989) Love Comes Lately (2007)

Works adapted into operas	Fool's Paradise (1994)

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