Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1976 Page: 7 of 24
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Prize-Winning Author, Isaac Singer, Wrote Before He Knew Alphabet
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, re-
Vnowned author and Yid-
r ishist, delighted approxi-
(; lately 125 members of the
Jewish community last
Thursday night when he
“decided to forget modesty
and speak about myself^
because I am an authority on
the subject.”
The prize-winning author,
who said he began “to write
before I knew the alphabet”
traced his early life in
Eastern Europe, particu-
larly Poland.
He said that “my parents
constantly sought to
strengthen the faith.”
The faith was in the one
God who, according to
Singer, “created the world,
you, the stars, the sky and
everything that lives.”
Singer said that he was
acquainted with the great
writers “by the time I was
eight.” But he was per-
plexed during the First
World War when he saw
“men march off to war
leaving hungry women and
children.”
His brother I. Singer, a
noted writer, had been a
believer in reason having
the predominance over faith
in God. But I. Bashevis
Singer said, “one could
question the validity of
-reason as weil as the
existence of God. My bro-
ther clung to the hope that
reason would be victorious...
but I came to the conclusion
that reason leads to idolo-
tries.”
Basically, though a transla-
tor and editor in his own
right, Singer is a confirmed
Yiddishist. He does not
believe Yiddish is dying and
proclaims that not only in
5,000 years but in 20,000
years there will still be
people talking and writing in
Yiddish.
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“Hebrew was near to me
but it was not my mother
language...I came to the
conclusion that writing in
Yiddish would be easier but
I soon came to the conclusion
that this was not so.”
Speaking of Poland, he
said, “The Polish people had
not come to terms with the
Jews. In the 1920’s...though
my ancestors lived in Poland
for 600 years we were still
strangers...I saw clearly
that we were living on a
volcano.”
“God,” says Singer, “is the
sum of all possibility.. Time
is the potential. My own
position is that the Universe
is full of potentiality...seen
as a whole.
“God was the eternal
writer. His main art was
creativity...and God yearns
to perfect his creation...a
novel written by the Lord
cannot last for one season...
and God’s heroes have more
than three dimensions., they
are numberless.
“God’s novel will never
end...what we call ‘death’ is
purely a temporary pause
for literary reasons.
“I once called God a
struggling artist” whose
“universal novel of creation
is” the world’s best “love
story.”
The indefatigible Singer
interspersed his delivery
with scores of references to
the audience, his position in
the literary world, the way
he parries questions and at
long last during the question
and answer session he
appealed to his audience to
ask any question, if he did
not know the answer, he
said, he could always take
another question or answer
it with one.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Miron presented Singer
with a portrait of himself on
behalf of his current visit to
Fort Worth and his appear-
ance at the Texas Christian
University sponsored
activity.
Singer has been a visiting
lecturer on TCU’s campus.
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- BY JIMMY WISCH
MEW CITIZEN
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Garoon
6800 Winchester Court,
announce the birth of their
son, Joshua Paul on April 21,
at Harris Hospital. Grand-
parent honors are shared by
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Wcxler of
Fort Worth and Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Garoon of
Chicago. Proud great-
grandmothers are Mrs.
Fannie Wexler, Dallas and
Mrs. Bertha Garoon and
Mrs. Dorothy Wolfe, both of
Chicago.
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