David Stromberg, at The Blogs
The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel
Stay updated with breaking news from New Clich. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel
By choosing to write in Yiddish rather than Hebrew, the young Singer declared his allegiance to the here and now rather than a biblical past or a Zionist future.
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ the Winter Olympics, newly translated essays by a Jewish Nobel Prize winner, and other things to keep on your radar.
Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel's deputy Jewish World editor. Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his Miami Beach apartment, October 10, 1978. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) In 2014, author and literary scholar David Stormberg took his first trip to the archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, in search of material by the late Yiddish-language Jewish-American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. He hit the motherlode. “I was looking for Bashevis Singer’s essays because I was interested in his non-fiction and worldview writing — on literature, on Judaism and Yiddi...