Revaluating Jewish identity: a centenary tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991). From: Midstream | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Theodor Herzl Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

If, over the last half-century, Yiddish literature has been able to speak to readers born after the language itself was murdered, the credit is largely that of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Not that he would openly have appreciated this tribute. After all, over many years, he took pains to claim that any work in Yiddish that he himself had not written was wholly without artistic merit:

   The themes employed by Yiddish writers and the writing 
   itself struck me as sentimental, primitive, petty [...] 
   Although Yiddish literature flirted with socialism and [ ... ] 
   with communism, ...

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