Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal, 1946-1955 Edition:Hardcover Plucked off the street

Plucked off the street

demonstrating how the rise of a pessimistic post-Holocaust sensibility

as an intellectual and a writer

Rolnik recalls his childhood growing up in a small town in Belarus and his exhilarating yet arduous experiences as an impoverished Yiddish poet living in New York

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal, 1946-1955 Edition:Hardcover Plucked off the streetListen to our podcast with writer, translator, and literary scholar David Stromberg. Translated and edited by David Stromberg What is the meaning of being Jewish after the Holocaust? Perceiving a crisis of Jewish collectivity, Isaac Bashevis Singer decided to confront this question in all its thorny intricacy. Via these endlessly humane and probing essays, he lays out the case for Jewish common ideals, insisting that inherent to every Jewish soul is a