Jan 3, 2010

In My Father’s Court | In My Father’s Court

At a glance:

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
First Published: 1956
Type of Work: Memoir
Time of Work: The early twentieth century
Setting: Leoncin, Warsaw, and Bilgoray, Poland
Principal Characters: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Pinhos-Mendel Singer, Bathsheba Singer, Israel Joshua Singer, Moishe Singer
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
Subjects: Adolescence, Jews or Jewish life, Youth, Biography

Form and Content

In My Father’s Court is the first of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s three volumes of memoirs, published over a span of nearly two decades. Taken together they comprise a record not only of the surface facts of Singer’s life, from his formative years in Poland through his period of adjustment to a new life in the United States during the mid-1930’s, but of his inner life as well. Although Singer includes bits of family history, such as the marriage of his parents, which predate his own birth, the bulk of In My Father’s Court chronicles his...

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In My Father’s Court | In My Father’s Court

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Form and Content

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