![]() The historic problem for Isaac Singer-as witness those other children of devout families, Hawthorne, Melville, James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane-is that whereas the orthodox believe that truth is personified by God and God is the truth, the Jewish novelist who derives from orthodoxy may find truth always protean and amazing because this is the way God actually thinks and moves. Interested in truth as he was when a young Chassid in gabardine and earlocks timidly looking at the street life in Warsaw. This should be obvious, but isn't to a great many Jews who still read novels but can't understand why, since he is the one Jewish novelist who can write about the unchanging Jewish struggles through the ages, Isaac Bashevis Singer is just as That ''It is not possible for an orthodox Jew who was committed to esthetics to be honest to both traditions.'' On ''the sources of Jewish creativity'' to which Isaac Bashevis Singer was probably not invited (he embodies so many ''sources of Jewish creatively'' all by himself), the orthodox Chaim Potok admitted ![]() ![]() ![]() The Atheist Who Hears God's Voice By ALFRED KAZINĪst European Jews have produced many stories, narratives, legends, but until our day, very little fiction. ![]()
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