Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Vol. 6) - Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904–
Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904–
Singer, a Polish-born American novelist, short story writer, translator, and author of books for children, writes primarily in Yiddish. One critic aptly summarized: "Many American authors have claimed Singer for their spiritual father, which is one reason for reading him; another is Bernard Malamud's dictum that today we are all Jews, and Singer … is a mine of information on our traditions." (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
[The Family Moskat] is a considerable novel: there are a dozen powerfully created characters; a deep sense of Warsaw as a city; and a real saturation in Jewish lore which gives the book a massive authority. It also possesses the impersonality of the epic, so that we swing from the rationalism of the Marxist intellectuals to the search for God in Spinoza or the Bible without feeling in the slightest at the mercy of the author's prejudice.
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