‘A Yiddish writer in America is an unseen entity,” Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “almost a ghost.” He offered this comment to explain why he felt inclined in his fables and fictions “to search for ...

Readers of the Yiddish Forverts in the 1940s would have been familiar with the contributors Yitskhok Bashevis, Yitskhok Varshavski and D. Segal, whose bylines appeared frequently atop articles that ...

IN MY FATHER’S COURT by Isaac Bashevis Singer. 307 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $5.50. “There are still mysterious forces at work in the world,” says Isaac Bashevis Singer. Dipping his pen in an ...

Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer By Isaac Bashevis Singer Buy this book Singer and his Yiddish readers shared the uncanny experience of being the last bearers of a ...

Many books, biographies and articles have been written about the life and work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. An exclusive discovery of the filmmakers brings to light a hitherto unknown chapter of his life ...

This month, the Library of America, in concert with other cultural institutions, including the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., is staging a celebration of Isaac Bashevis Singer. July ...

Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, ...