Isaac Bashevis Singer: Master Storyteller

From: Humanities | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Kim-Brown, Caroline | Copyright information

IN AN INTERVIEW about his early years in America, Isaac Bashevis Singer said, "When I came to America I had a feeling of catastrophe. My only hope was to come to America. I foresaw that there would be no rest in Poland. Many people were too optimistic or blind to see the danger. I foresaw the Holocaust."

When Singer arrived in New York in 1935 at the age of thirty, he spoke exactly three words in English: "Take a chair." It was not an auspicious time to be an immigrant; America was in ...

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