Isaac Bashevis Singer - Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, the War Years, 1939-1945
Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 is the first in a three-volume series, featuring twenty-five carefully curated essays (selected from over 150) written from just before the start of World War II through to its immediate aftermath.
“There has always been a gap between English-language author Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Yiddish writer,” notes Stromberg (editor of New Truths and Old Clichés) in this revealing selection of Singer’s newly-translated articles published in the Yiddish newspaper Forverts from 1939 to 1945. Written in a period of unspeakable turmoil for the world’s Jews, these pieces—each accompanied by a brief and useful introduction from Stromberg—reveal a raw anxiety less frequently seen in Singer’s other works.