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“... to the saintly Lonoff (who Roth persistently refuses to ‘identify’ as Bernard Malamud or Isaac BashevisSinger, the critics’ choices). Zuckerman, too, has scores to settle and finds it impossible to keep his mouth shut. He, too, is possessed by demons and would sometimes quite like to turn into a ...”

“... one more form of commercialism’. The break came when he was assigned to review a collection by Isaac BashevisSinger. The gripping narratives, ‘telling details’ and ‘humanity’ made him yearn for a time before the ‘classy jugglers’ of modernism vandalised the ‘tradition of Tolstoy and Chekhov’. By ...”

“... is on the point of obliteration, and in this sense his project stands comparison with the work of Isaac BashevisSinger, and his funny, nostalgic, unsentimental stories of the Warsaw ghetto and his own Krochmalna Street. The comparison with Singer suggests itself because, despite ...”

“... utter waste of time. To Ralph Ellison: ‘I’ve never enjoyed writing letters. Vasiliki says that Isaac, whose journals she took after his death, had some uncomplimentary things to say about the way I answered letters. I deserve them. There is some wickedness hidden here and I ought to root it up, even if it should mean going to an analyst. It’s part of ...”

“... barely identify himself with reality, let alone with the Jews,’ Philip Roth once observed to Isaac BashevisSinger. He was using the terms of a famous joke of disavowal in Kafka’s diaries: ‘What have I in common with the Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself.’ It’s true that Schulz was born ...”

“... only if he compared Israel to apartheid South Africa; and he bought a copy of The Penitent by Isaac BashevisSinger. Lasdun found himself identifying with the novel’s protagonist, Joseph Shapiro, a ‘regular flawed and fallen human being’ like him until he bought a ticket to Israel and returned to the faith of ...”

“... Conjunctions ran a series of reproductions of pages from a pocket diary that had belonged to Isaac BashevisSinger. In capital letters, Singer – who emigrated from Poland to America in 1935 – filled page after page with lists of words: 15 ...”

“... the dim, cute Canadian girls and the Svejk-like Lojza. The book was written in Czech, rather as Isaac BashevisSinger writes in Yiddish, to keep the language flourishing and to be translated into English. The three other novels here are suffused with a peculiar unhappiness endured by members of the English upper ...”

“... thinking, for instance, of Grass’s Danzig-become-Gdansk, of Joyce’s abandoned Dublin, of Isaac BashevisSinger and Maxine Hong Kingston and Milan Kundera and many others. It’s a long list.) On the other hand, the Indian writer, looking back at India, does so through guilt-tinted spectacles. (I am, of ...”

“... he wanders around the city. It remains his best-known work, certainly outside Norway. According to Isaac BashevisSinger, ‘the whole modern school of literature in the 20th century stems’ from it. Its novelty derived from its intense psychological subjectivity, reminiscent of Dostoevsky, and at times of Joyce. Being ...”

“... possessed by later generations of Jewish Americans. I was shocked by the irreverence with which Isaac BashevisSinger, born in 1904 in Poland and in many ways the 20th century’s quintessential Jewish writer, depicted Shoah survivors in his fiction, and derided both the state of Israel and the eager philosemitism of ...”

“... which are virtually unknown in Italy, except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth, Bellow, Singer, Malamud, Potok, and of course yourself. Levi’s explained intention does not mean that there is no autobiography in the book. The wish to evoke a Jewish resistance to Nazism relates to a history which comprehends his own writings and example. And in the ...”

“... was born Barbara Joan Streisand in 1942 in Brooklyn. Her mother, Diana Rosen, was a gifted singer; Streisand never shook the feeling that her mother was jealous of her. When she was fifteen months old her father, Emanuel, died of a seizure at a summer camp in the Catskills, and Streisand, her mother and nine-year-old brother moved first to her maternal ...”