Isaac Bashevis Singer
Lapham’s Quarterly, Winter 2020
Translated from the Yiddish For some time now, people have spoken of Yiddish and Hebrew coming closer together. It’s hard to know what exactly this "closer together" is supposed to be about—or what it should allow us to do. You can’t bring one language closer to another. Yiddish cannot form a united front with Hebrew. Each language has its own history, its own fate. . . .
