Read a Never-Before-Translated Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The Gift of the Mishnah.”
July 25, 2017
Read a Never-Before-Translated Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The Gift of the Mishnah.”
In 1960, the great Yiddish writer I.B. Singer published a short story, “Mishnayes,” about an aging and devout Polish Jew living in a house with his radicalized and secularized grandchildren. The story, originally appearing in the journal Di Goldene Keyt, was included in Singer’s Yiddish collection Gimple Tam, and was even translated (by Moshe Spiegel) during Singer’s lifetime under the title “The Gift of the Mishnah,” but it never saw publication in English. It has now been prepared for publication by David Stromberg, a Jerusalem-based writer, who contributes an essay on Singer running alongside:
July 25, 2017
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