Who could live with Isaac Bashevis Singer? The sexual escapades of the most successful Yiddish writer in America — and the one whom most Yiddish literati loved to hate — were public knowledge, in ...

There’s a fascinating new war going on in the culture between self-proclaimed “scientific atheists” and theists. Militant atheists who believe There’s a fascinating new war going on in the culture ...

Review of: Old Truths and New Clinches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The critic Joseph Epstein liked to tell the story of an acquaintance who wanted something good to read while on a vacation.

If schadenfreude is joy at the misfortune of others, then distress over their success might be called Bashevis-tsoris. The more popular and prosperous Isaac Bashevis Singer became, the more it irked ...

Yet as Florence Noiville, a Paris literary critic for Le Monde, points out, "The writer who delighted the goyim disturbed his own people." Throughout his career, Singer was dogged by a number of ...

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It is Isaac Singer`s frequent practice at public appearances to cock his head, smile shyly, and disarm his audiences by saying, ”You must forgive my accent. I speak all languages with an accent-even ...

About an unsuccessful writer, Bendit Pupko, married to a woman with a thick beard. Pupko turned from writing to real estate and made a fortune. Singer's nightmare occurred after Pupko's death, when ...

Today in 1851, Isaac Singer patented the first practical and mass-produced sewing machine, which straight changed the lives of the working class. You know you’re on to something when even that luddite ...

Yiddish is a language without a country, without a government and possibly without a future. It was pronounced dead long before now but, like Welsh, refuses to lie down. Considerable thanks for that ...