Books
September, 1978
It has been said that most songwriters have only one basic song on which they do variations forever and that a song-writer with two basic songs is a genius. If one applies that standard to writers of books, then Isaac Bashevis Singer, though an outstanding author, is not a genius, because he has basically one story to tell: the struggle of Jews to maintain their culture in a rapidly changing and often antagonistic world. Shosha (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), his latest novel, is about Arele, a you...
