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Though Isaac Bashevis Singer still writes his short stories in Yiddish, and though his style and subject matter place him in the great tradition of Yiddish writing, Kenneth Rexroth has called him "certainly one of the most remarkable American authors who has ever lived...
...folk tales which are the primary sources of Yiddish literature. Yet, Singer's conviction that the demons he writes about are real is balanced in his fiction by a wholly modern psychological skepticism. He has been condemned by many Yiddish critics for the same qualities that critics like Rexroth, Alfred Kazin, and Irving Howe find praiseworthy--a lack of concern for the fate of the Jews as a nation, a wholly Western concern for the individual, the unique...
...Messrs. Rexroth and Christensen may believe that they created something free of Freud and Jung when they offered their San Francisco ballet titled Original Sin to the public. In reality, they are much closer to the two psychiatrists than to the original sinners. Their Adam and Eve dance is in the tradition of sorcerers and witches, young nobles and peasants of the 14th century (see cut from The Entry of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris as Bride of Charles...
...girl turned out to be the only one in the crowd who had read anything by Rexroth, "Something in a magazine last year," while her boyfriend's knowledge of the poet extended to "listening to a record...
Richard A. Rand '62 editor of the Advocate, seemed as disappointed as the rest. "That's awful," he said in dismay. One wasn't sure whether he was speaking of the abortive welcoming demonstration or the ticket sales. Only 250 showed up in Sanders Theater to hear Rexroth Saturday...