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.

Readers of the Yiddish Forverts in the 1940s would have been familiar with the contributors Yitskhok Bashevis, Yitskhok Varshavski and D. Segal, whose bylines appeared frequently atop articles that ...

‘A Yiddish writer in America is an unseen entity,” Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “almost a ghost.” He offered this comment to explain why he felt inclined in his fables and fictions “to search for ...

A tradition largely lost now, lingering in the works of Dickens and an odd line from “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” is the Yuletide ghost story. In his Nobel lecture, Isaac Bashevis ...

The only Yiddish writer to win the Nobel Prize, Isaac Bashevis Singer would have been 100 on Wednesday. In honor of the occasion, the Library of America has released three volumes of his collected ...

It has long been known that Isaac Bashevis Singer’s public persona, that of the grandfatherly storyteller, had been carefully crafted for his readership. Behind the facade of folksiness was a ...

Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, the War Years, 1939-1945 Isaac Bashevis Singer, edited and trans. from the Yiddish by David Stromberg. White Goat, $24.95 (206p) ISBN 979-8-9886773-0-7 ...

New photos have been released of BASHEVIS’S DEMONS, which comprises three short stories by legendary Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer and will be presented Off-Broadway direct from engagements ...