The Certificate

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.

Novels
  • The Family Moskat (1950)
  • Satan in Goray (1955)
  • The Magician of Lublin (1960)
  • The Slave (1962)
  • Zlateh the Goat (1966)
  • The Fearsome Inn (1967)
  • Mazel and Shlimazel (1967)
  • The Manor (1967)
  • The Estate (1969)
  • The Golem (1969)
  • Elijah The Slave (1970)
  • Joseph and Koza: or the Sacrifice to the Vistula (1970)
  • The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China (1971)
  • Enemies, a Love Story (1972)
  • The Wicked City (1972)
  • The Hasidim (1973)
  • Fools of Chelm and Their History (1973)
  • Naftali and the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus (1976)
  • A Little Boy in Search of God (1976)
  • Shosha (1978)
  • A Young Man in Search of Love (1978)
  • Reaches of Heaven. A Story Of The Baal Shem Tov (1980)
  • The Penitent (1983)
  • Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1983)
  • Why Noah Chose the Dove (1984)
  • The King of the Fields (1988)
  • Scum (1991)
  • The Certificate (1992)
  • Meshugah (1994)
  • Shadows on the Hudson (1997)
Short stories
Short story collections
  • "Gimpel the Fool" (1957)
  • The Spinoza of Market Street (1961)
  • A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories (1970)
  • A Crown of Feathers (1973)
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 1 (2004)
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 2 (2004)
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stories Vol. 3 (2004)
Non-fiction
Works adapted into films
Plays