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...There are still mysterious forces at work in the world," says Isaac Bashevis Singer. Dipping his pen in an inkwell of wonders, he has drawn out, in his demonic, forceful fiction (The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry. His work has already commandingly established him as the greatest living master of Yiddish prose and as one of the enduring leaders among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote...
...announcing the decision, Chief Judge S. Kotowshi said that the provincial court in Lublin "had not handled this case very properly." He said that it was clear from the trial record that Field "had no intention of striking or insulting an official on duly...
Edward J. Liberda, prosecutor at Lublin in Eastern Poland, said that an appeal will be filed to the Polish Supreme Court as soon as prosecutors receive an official copy of the Feb. 15 verdict against Field...
Andrew Field, who was a teaching fellow in Slavic Languages and Literature last year, could have received a jail term of up to seven years. Instead, a three-judge court in Lublin, Poland, fined him 250 slotys ($10.40) and gave him an eight-mouth suspended sentence...
...sore temptation is Wanda, the daughter of his master. She is intelligent and well formed. But by both Jewish and Christian custom of the times, marriage of Jew and Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language of innuendoes, winks...