Isaac Bashevis Singer in Israel
Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2018
Isaac Bashevis Singer—the famed Yiddish writer and 1978 laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature—made his first trip to Israel in the fall of 1955. His relationship to Israel was complicated to say the least. He had been born into a strictly religious family of rabbis and rebetzins in Poland, for whom the land of Israel was the holiest of religious symbols. . .
