Prayer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Tablet, May 2021

Translated from the Yiddish A searingly personal, deeply moving prayer, written in Hebrew, was discovered in the Nobel Laureate’s papers. The prayer was handwritten on the back of a rent receipt made out to Singer by Riesner & Gottlieb, which shows he lived on 410 Central Park West, Apartment 12F, and that he paid $73.50 for March 1952.

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