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06-25-2004
'Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it," Isaac Bashevis
Singer said in an interview in 1978. "Time changes things, God changes
things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything."

As it turned out, Singer was wrong about writers. For evidence all he had
to look at was his own life. If he did nothing else, he changed things. He
introduced millions around the world to the lost universe of Eastern
European Jewry, creating indelible depictions of a world that could no
longer sit for portraits.

This summer, Singer, who died in 1991, would have ...

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