**The Spinoza of market street**: In these tales about Poland's Jewish ghettos before World War II Isaac Bashevis Singer creates a world so fresh, so full of the beat and cries of astonishing life that he can fairly be called one of the few originals now writing.
---Time
As almost every serious reader of modern literature knows by now, Isaac Bashevis Singer is the greatest contemporary Yiddish writer, perhaps the greatest. Yiddish writer of all time.
