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Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of Satan in Goray, The Magician of Lublin, and several collections of short stories, is the foremost living writer in Yiddish. His recent book, A Day of Pleasure, won the National Book Award in children's literature. "Children still belive in God, the family, angels devils witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff," he said as he accepted the award. The following interview took place about three weeks ago when Singer came to speak at Harvard...
...When people ask me what elements are used in my writing, it's like asking a chicken what chemicals it used in laying an egg," Isaac Bashevis Singer, the noted Yiddish author of The Magician of Lublin and A Day of Pleasure, told an audience of 600 in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...oldest seat of higher learning, Cracow's 14th century Jagellonian University, some 10,000 students surged through Old Market Square carrying placards that promised "Warsaw is not alone." Shouting down professors who called for calm, they cut classes and jostled with police the next day. In Lublin, at the Communist bloc's only Roman Catholic university, several students were arrested after clashing with police. Elsewhere, bitter but nonviolent protest flared-in Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin in the west, in Gdansk on the Baltic and in Lodz, near Warsaw...
Tragicomic Figure. The Manor, written between 1953 and 1955 but now appearing for the first time in English, could be the breakthrough book to gain Singer the wider audience he deserves. Like all of his fiction (The Magician of Lublin, Gimpel the Fool), this work is a subtle form of autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois...
...cardinal, ordering him to tone down the millennium and reminding him that a replica of Czestochowa's renowned "Black Madonna" painting-centerpiece for most of the celebrations-could only be transported around Poland in "a closed car." The warning went unheeded. Last week a group of students in Lublin grabbed the portrait after a cathedral ceremony and carried it down the main street to the cheers of tens of thousands of Poles. "The Virgin Mary," Cardinal Wyszynski explained later, "traveled to Bethlehem on foot, so our youth did not want her to travel by car." At Lublin...