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The Nobel Prize for the Shte tl Mysticist
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Then came The Magi-
cian of Lublin" (1960), "The
Spinoze of Market Street"
(1961), "The Slave" (1962),
"Short Friday" (1964), "In
My Father's Court" (1966),
"Enemies: A Love Story"
(1969), "A Crown of Feath-
ers" (1973), and "Passions"
(1976). He also wrote books
for children and is currently
working on'what he calls a
spiritual autobiography.
Singer's big family
chronicles, "The Family
Moskat," "The Manor" and
"The Estate" have been
compared with the massive
' Thomas Mann novel "Bud-
denbrooks." Like Mann,
Singer delineates how -
families are shattered by
the new epoch and its de-
mands over a time span
from the mid-19th Century
to World War II.
An appreciation of his
writings, issued by the
Swedish Academy, declared
that his writings on the
Jewish quarter of Warsaw,
destined for destruction by
the Nazis during World War
II, restored the ghetto to
life. The academy declared,
!
"It is the world and life of Forward and for myself. It is
East European Jewry, such the greatest thing to have,
as it was lived in the cities happened to Yiddish litera-
and villages, in poverty and ture. It is the first time a
persecution, and imbued man won the Nobel award
with sincere piety and rites, who is known mostly in
combined with blind faith translation."
and superstition." Singer
Weber said the award
has always written in Yid-
dish, and has said fre- would give "a tremendous
quently that he not only boost" to Yiddish literature.
writes in Yiddish but that He said he had been receiv-
he writes "about people who ing calls all morning, fol-
lowing the announcement
speak Yiddish."
of the award, from readers
Simon Weber, editor of wanting to know where
the Forward, said that they could get Singer's work
Singer told him that he in Yiddish. Morris U.
never wrote for prizes. "I Schappes, historian and
am not forgetting for one editor of Jewish Currents,
moment that writers in said, "It is high time that a
previous times did not __-Ariddish writer was recog-
write for prizes but this nized with a Nobel award."
did not diminish their
In a telephone interview
greatness," Weber said
with the JTA from his
Singer had told him.
winter home in Miami,
Singer, Weber added, said Singer said he was initially
he would always remember surprised when he learned
that he owes everhting to he had won the award but
the Forward bec-ause it was after four or five hours, he
there that his writings first was no longer surprised. "I
appeared. Weber told. the think it is good for the Yid-
Jewish Telegraphic Agency dish language," he said. "He
that for him the Nobel called the award a "victory
award to Singer was "the for Yiddishism and for those
proudest moment for the who love' this language."
* * *
`Shoste An Autobiographically
Superb Isaac Bashevis Singer Novel
"Shosha;" Isaac Bashevis
Singer's latest novel (Far-
rar, Straus and Giroux), re-
presents the genius of the
newest literary Nobelist.
It IS a love story, about a •
man with many flames in
his affections. It is the tale
of a man of letters who came
to New York from war-torn
Poland. "Shosha" is de-
picted from age 9, a girl of
complicity, growing into a
symbol of the womanhood
that lived through the years
of terror, later to be remem-
bered in the recollections of
the author as he meets with
survivors depicting the af-
termath of the great calam-
ity in a reunion in Israel.
"Shosha" is more than a
novel. It is a reflection on
history, the crucial era of
the World War II tragedies,
the survivors' after-
thoughts, their introspec-
tions, their views on -a new
life after the destruction of
the dreams of their early
years under stress.
"Shosha" may be viewed as
It is philosophy on one of Isaac Bashevis Sing-
Jewish experiences, their er's most creative works.
views on the godly and "Shosha" is a novel rooted in
. the demoniacal.
American and Israeli ex-
It is the story of people periences. The beginnings
who will confront the in- are in the areas of death and
evitable and attune to anew destruction in the years
life, never making peace preceding Hitler in Poland,
marked by a continuity that
with death.
It is Singer's autobiog- leaves many deep-rooted
raphical dissertation, a marks of the agonies that
documentary of life in struck those who are sym-
America, the discovery of bolized in the novel's cast of
the creativity in Israel characters. * * *
emerging out of the reborn
who come to Israel to build a Singer Novel
new life with new dignity,
new identifications that Made Into Film
defy the death threats of the
NEW YORK - Israeli
past.
film producers Menahem
The new builders of a new Golan and Yoram Globus
life are not religious, yet are completing the film
they rise up to a faith reborn "The Magician of Lublin,"
that is rooted in the dignity based on the novel by Isaac
of cherished traditions.
Bashevis Singer.
Once again, Singer the
The film stars Alan Ar-
mystic is the Singer of kin, Louise Fletcher, Val-
faith.
erie Perrine and Shelley
In many respects, Winters.
The Spirit of Camp David Is Not at UN'
Friday, October 13, 1978 13
,
He added: "I am not the
only winner of the award. I
share it will all my readers
and all who love the Yiddish
language."
Singer is well known in
Israel among readers of
Hebrew. Three of his
books, "The Slave," "The
Magician of Lublin" and
a collection of stories
have been translated into
Hebrew. His son, Israel
Zamir, is a member of
Kibutz Beit Alfa in the
Jezreel Valley. Zamir, a
writer and journalist and
Singer's son from his first
marriage, came to the
United States to meet
with his father after Is-
rael's War of Indepen-
dence in 1948. The result
of that meeting was two
stories - one by the
father, the other by the
son. Both stories ap-
peared in Hebrew.
A well-known Israeli
writer, Natan Shacham,
presently Israel's cultural
attache at the Israel consu-
late in New York, said he
was "very glad that
Bashevis Singer, the repre-
sentative of Yiddish cul-
ture, has gained the inter-
national recognition which
he so richly deserves."
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UNITED NATIONS '
(JTA) - Yehuda Blum, Is-
rael's ambassador to the
United Nations, said Satur-
day night that "the spirit of
Camp David" did not touch
the United Nations and the
deliberations of the ongoing
33rd session of the General
Assembly.
Addressing a press con-
ference, Blum charged that
the "rejectionist" Arab
states - Syria, Libya, Iraq,
Algeria, and South Yemen
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lies are using the delibera-
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noted, however, that in pri-
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UN many diplomats are
very supportive of the Camp
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Blum said that the ac-
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as a one-sided victory for
Egypt or Israel. "It was a
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sions. Israel made far-
reaehing concessions, Blum
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part from the national con-
sensus that the Rafah Sa-
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rity and should be retained,
and that Sharm el-Sheikh
will never be abandoned.
On Friday, Blum told
the Israel Bond National
Campaign Cabinet, "If
peace does come closer
- as a-result of the' agree-
ments, it is a triumph for
Israel, Egypt and
President Carter."
Sam Rothberg, general
chairman of the Israel Bond
Organization, declared that
a cash mobilization drive
will be launched through-
out the United States and
Canada through Nov. 3 - to
provide Israel with im-
mediate funds from indi-
viduals who already have
promised to invest in Israel
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He stressed that "a strong
Israel made it possible for
President Sadat to visit
Jerusalem last year" and "a
strong Israel made the
Camp David summit result
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