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- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Suicide, New York City, Marriage, 1940’s, World War II, Polygamy or bigamy, Jews or Jewish life, Holocaust, Jewish, Judaism
- Locales: New York, NY
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*New York City. Largest city in the United States and the first destination for most of its European immigrants during the early twentieth century. In perhaps no other city, even Israel’s Tel Aviv, could Isaac Bashevis Singer have so keenly observed post-Holocaust Jewish psychology. As his fictional Polish immigrant Herman Broder moves about New York City, making his living ghostwriting books and lectures for a rich rabbi, he mingles with Jews of several economic strata and varying political opinions and religious practices. In this microcosm of world...
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