Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
by Israel Zamir
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When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he got settled. He never did. Mother and child moved first to the USSR and ultimately to Israel, where Zamir grew up on a kibbutz. In 1995, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to meet his father. Singer's strengths and failings, his methods of working, his passion for the Yiddish language, his lust for show more words, for women, and for life, all come to new light in Zamir's candid and touching account. Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a personal and moving portrait of one of this century's major writers. It is also an honest exploration of the often charged and complex relationship between father and son, and son and father. show lessTags
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Israel Zamir was a writer and journalist who translated most of his father's works into Hebrew. The father of four children, he lived in Israel with his wife, Aviva. He died in Jerusalem in 2014.
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- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 839.0933 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures - Yiddish Fiction 1860-
- LCC
- PJ5129 .S49 .Z9613 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Other languages used by Jews Yiddish
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