About Isaac Bashevis Singer. (Ladino and Yiddish Poetry).(Poem)

From: Midstream | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Haber, Leo | Copyright information 
ABOUT ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER 
(VEYGN YITSKHOK BASHEYVIS ZINGER) 
 
   My father refused to read the novels 
   of the depraved Singer in an unkosher 
   newspaper like the Forward. Every day 
   he would rise early with the first rays 
   of the morning sun from the eastern window. 
   I close one eye lying in bed. The other sees 
   him putting the phylacteries on the left hand 
   and on his head. He looks like a slave 
   shuffling in a dark dungeon with a hand 
   tied up in irons. I'm...

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