His stories and novels portary a life which vanished with the thud of German army boots-that of the shtetl, the Eastern European Jewish village. In a melting-pot country whose image of the Jew is a hybrid composite of the sex-crazed fantasies of Alexander Portnoy and the excessive mentality of Fiddler on the Roof, Isaac Bashevis Singer is a refreshing breeze of sanity and reality. The following interview took place about three weeks ago when Singer came to speak at Harvard. "Children still belive in God, the family, angels devils witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff," he said as he accepted the award. His recent book, A Day of Pleasure, won the National Book Award in children's literature. Isaac Bashevis Singer, author of Satan in Goray, The Magician of Lublin, and several collections of short stories, is the foremost living writer in Yiddish.
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