A Literary-Biographical Consideration of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s First Years in New York, 1935–1937
Studies in American Jewish Literature, 40.2 (2021), 109-139
Isaac Bashevis Singer arrived in New York on May 1, 1935, on a tourist visa—and spent the next two years finalizing his immigrant status while trying to advance the career he had begun to establish in Warsaw. Using archival sources, this consideration of Singer’s life and work revisits some of the details presented in his work—which may have seemed irrelevant or inconvenient for his own account—to paint a more intricate portrait of his path as a young Yiddish writer in America.
