Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland...
...Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland...
...SLAVE (311 pp.)-Isaac Bashevis Singer-Farrar,Straus&Cudahy...
...obsessions speak with the force of art; the hacks are more likely to follow the fashion, which is to whimper at Meaninglessness. The late Nikos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ; St. Francis) was such a God-obsessed artist, and so, in a slighter and less intense way, is Isaac Singer, 57, a Pole (now a U.S. citizen) who lives in Manhattan and writes in Yiddish. His subjects are usually lowly Polish Jews, important only to themselves, God and the Devil; the mark of his skill is that he makes them-and makes God and the Devil-important to secular...
...ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Isaac Stern, violinist Mus.D...