Henne Fire | Critical Overview
Two lines of criticism emerge about the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for literature. Many have praised Singer, who always wrote in Yiddish, as the last great storyteller, especially in the tradition of Yiddish storytellers. Stefan Kanfer’s 1991 obituary for Singer in Time, in fact, highlights the author’s lofty position in many critics’ minds with its title, ‘‘The Last Teller of Tales.’’ The other strain of criticism, according to Dan Miron in Judaism, showed itself in the ‘‘servings of envy and hatred that [Singer] received from the rapidly shrinking...
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