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July 12, 2018

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Trip to Israel

A land where “loving fellow Jews has a mystical significance.”

In 1955, the Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer traveled for the first time to the Land of Israel, sending a series of dispatches back to New York for publication in the Yiddish Forward. In them, Singer, although never a Zionist, displays a great deal of passion for the Holy Land and sympathy for the fledgling state. David Stromberg comments:

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