i'm not sure what a typical yiddish writer is as I don't speak yiddish but what I do know is that Bashevis Singer is such an outstanding writer that he should be rated far higher than he currently is. In my opinion he was probably the most talented writer in the 20th Century
@earthangel2524
3 жыл бұрын
When I met with Singer at lunch at a Berkeley, California writer's conference, he bemoaned the appalling lack of crime-victims' rights compared to treatment of criminals. He wanted strong police to protect the innocent. I didn't take this as a political view per se--more a deep empathy with the people suffering injury at the hands of human predators. IMO he was a sharp cookie with A+ radar for the California BS that passes as political ideology.
@Reporterreporter770
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you this was what i was looking for,
@VictorLepanto
5 жыл бұрын
I knew I liked him.
@luisga3709
5 жыл бұрын
But he read so many gentile authors that were secular too...
@fsilber330
9 жыл бұрын
Zuckerman says Singer was alienated from the progressive politics of the secular yiddish culture that supported him. Maybe that's true, but the example he gave -- Singer's admiration for the support of police by then California governor Ronald Reagan, may have been a late development for Singer. Where was the center of secular Jewish (if not yiddish) culture to replace Warsaw and Vilna in the postwar years, if not NYC? And what did the Bundists want, but that people of working class income such as Zuckerman's parents could live in safe, affordable housing with public transportation and good public schools where they could send their children? And were did such conditions exist, if not in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side in the 1940s and '50s? And what was happening to these neighborhoods in the years of Ronald Reagan's governorship? I'll tell you what was happening. Increasing crime and violence, committed almost entirely by newcomers, was driving out working class Jews and scattering them. When the Tzar authorized the Cossacks to loot and rob the stetlach of Russia, he did not destroy those communities as thoroughly as these NYC communities were destroyed by rising crime tolerated by NYC's left and liberal political forces. This was not solely a NYC problem; the architects of LBJ's "Great Society" saw to it that this became a nationwide problem. Perhaps, in contrast to the Tzar, they were motivated by good intentions -- but so what? Suppose Yiddish culture had lasted a few more generations. After the era of the 1960s New Left, where in pre-Giuliani NYC could someone trying to scratch out a living as a yiddish poet afford to live? And what would life be like there for his childrent?
@Airman1121
Жыл бұрын
איך ווונדער אויב דאָס שטעלונג איז פּראָסט? מיין זיידע איז געווען אויף די לינקע, אבער דאס איז געווען אנדערש מיט 100 יאר צוריק. איך קאָן זיך פֿאַרבינדן מיט באַשעוויס, בפֿרט נאָך איך בין אַליין געווען אַ קרבן פֿון פֿאַרברעכן.
@fsilber330
Жыл бұрын
@@Airman1121 Just trying to understand what you wrote, as I did not grow up with Yiddish and never studied it formally, but picked some up by reading books after taking four semester of German in college and attending shul beginning in my 30s: "Ikh vunder oib dos stellung is prost" (I wonder if the setting is ?ordinary?) "Mein zeide is gven auf die linke" (My grandfather was on the left), "ober dos is gven anders mit 100 yahr tzeruck" (but things were different a century ago). "Ikh kan zich farbinden mit Bashevis" (I can ?simpathize? with Bashevis), "bfrt nach Ikh bin allein gven a korban fun farbrechen" (?especially? after I became a victim of crime).
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