Poised between the ancient and the new.(Isaac B. Singer: A Life)(Book review) American Scholar | January 1, 2007| | COPYRIGHT 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Society. 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

ISAAC B. SINGER: A Life. By Florence Noiville, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the last great Yiddish writer, used a dying language of exile to recreate a lost world. A descendant of seven generations or more of rabbis, he was born in 1904 into a poor, austere family in which, Singer later said, "the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper." His father convened a rabbinical court at home, crowded by yeshiva students, simpletons, beggars, and penitents ...

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