Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him.
In my father's court
a memoir
This book might be part of the Penguin twentieth-century classics series.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: In my father's court (1994, Penguin)
253 pages
English language
Published March 1, 1994 by Penguin.
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