Isaac Singer
To grow up in a Jewish family near Warsaw 1902 was not such a great experience for the family of Isaac Singer and was a fact that marked him. Being a very harsh defensor of the Yiddish literature he had started his work doing translations for his community newspaper, and making sure that the language didn’t die.
He is nowadays famous for his tales which are based on his childhood but without the horrors of it explicitly written he would basically write things which would not be accepted easily by his community. Such as in the case of “The family Moskat”, where he describes a double adultery during the night of the Yom Kippur (one of the most importants for the jews). Or about female homosexuality ("Zeitl and Rickl" in "The Seance"), transvestitism ("Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" in "Short Friday"), and of rabbis corrupted by demons ("Zeidlus the Pope" in "Short Friday"). In those novels and stories which seem to recount his own life, he portrays himself unflatteringly (with some degree of accuracy) as an artist who is self-centered yet has a keen eye for the sufferings and tribulations of others.
He is nowadays famous for his tales which are based on his childhood but without the horrors of it explicitly written he would basically write things which would not be accepted easily by his community. Such as in the case of “The family Moskat”, where he describes a double adultery during the night of the Yom Kippur (one of the most importants for the jews). Or about female homosexuality ("Zeitl and Rickl" in "The Seance"), transvestitism ("Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" in "Short Friday"), and of rabbis corrupted by demons ("Zeidlus the Pope" in "Short Friday"). In those novels and stories which seem to recount his own life, he portrays himself unflatteringly (with some degree of accuracy) as an artist who is self-centered yet has a keen eye for the sufferings and tribulations of others.
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