Isaac Bashevis Singer & David Stromberg 
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt [EPUB ebook] 
The War Years, 1939-1945

Isaac Bashevis Singer’ s Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945, is the first major effort to fill the gap between the Nobel laureate’s Yiddish and English oeuvre. Knowing that a whole world, a whole way of life, a whole cultural treasure bound up with Yiddish and Yiddishkayt–that they were all going up in flames before his very eyes–was crushing for Singer, driving him to put pen to paper and write. His wartime writing–appearing in an intensely urgent tone–sought to record not only the customs but also the immediacy of the loss that was taking place at that very moment.