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Reb Pinchos, a Talmudic scholar, was the head of a small yeshiva in Krasnik, Poland. He was married to Greena Chasha& had one son&2 daughters, …
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer , the Nobel Prize-winning author of numerous novels, story collections, and children’s books, died in 1991.
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The writer remembers meeting a female rebel for the first time. He was nineteen and a proofreader for a Yiddish literary magazine. The editor sent him to …
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Fiction, from 1980: I am told that on the day he became judge the thieves held a banquet. They knew that Malecki would never put anyone in prison.
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An 11-year-old boy hides and listens while his Aunt Yentl tells two neighbor ladies a story. In Lublin, a village in Poland, the second wife of Reb Yissar …
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Famous author received letter & gifts from an unknown admirer--Elizabeth Abigail de Sollar who wrote in the letter that his books had helped her "find" …
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The author at one time counselled readers for a Yiddish newspaper. Late one Friday, a man in his eighties, named Sam Opal, came to tell the author, who …
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Fiction, from 1973: “Every month, the Lentshin letter carrier brought old Berl a money order and a letter that no one could read because many of the words were English. How much money Samuel sent his parents remained a secret.”
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On a summer afternoon the writer sat in a cafeteria in midtown N.Y. An acquaintance of his, Zelig Fingerbein, came in and sat with him, and told him his …