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*»«• 14 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November It. 1479
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Singer’s ‘Old Love’
reviewed by
Joseph Chirr, O.D.S.
OLD LOVE hr lame Bashrsxs
Smger. 27J pp. Sen- Yort Farrar.
Strauss. Giroux. $10.95.
Most Nobel laureates in
literature close shop after the trip
to Sweden. Sinclair Lewis was
finished after his Nobel Prize.
Steinbeck couldn't produce
another serious thing; Bellow has
set to overcome this “obstacle,"
hut nothing seems to stop Isaac
Bashevis Singer. Here is a
grouping of talcs that is daring,
extremely “grossartic” beyond
surface simplicity, memorable,
moving to the "Nth" degree. All of
the stories have been previously
published, most of them in The
New Yorker, and have thereby
already been seen by several
million readers. Nonetheless, they
are different in this tasteful
grouping, in hardback so far.
Just to focus on two examples of
the author’s range of subject and
approach, consider the stories
“Yochna and Shmelke," and “A
Party tn Miami.” Yochna is the
epitome of submission to faith.
Max Flederbush to fate. In the first
story we have a glowing flashback
to the time when parents picked
out a “chosen" (ch as in chailah)
for their daughter. Here they have
arranged a match that brings
happiness as is only foretold in
heaven. Yochna, a cheerful pious
girl, “grown like dough made with
lots of yeast," is married off to a
thin, emaciated, young Talmudist
with such willingness and with
such joy that it makes the modern
pick-for-oncself philosophy seem
ridiculous beyond compare. Even
the accidental death of Yochna's
beloved new husband, Shmelke,
seems preordained, not to be
questioned. The newly conceived
life in the womb of Yochna will
carry on their heavenly union
beyond the grave.
In “Miami," on the other hand,
Flederbush, a refugee, having
made a small bundle in
condominiums and stocks and in
art, suddenly loses everything. His
enitre family is wiped out in an
automobile accident on a little-
frequented road on the way to
Disneyland, this after his
miraculous escape from the hell of
the camps. “Job was apparently
still young and God rewarded him
with new daughters, new camels,
and new asses, but I'm too old for
such blessings." Remarkably,
however. Max Flederbush does
carry on, continues to live, to hope.
As far as his admirers are
concerned, Isaac Bashevis Singer
surpasses all tributes when he
handles such insoluble situations.
Not that this writer will ever leave
out the most curious, exotic
folkloric details involved in an old-
tashioned shtetle wedding; not that
he will relate the devastating
tragedy of Max Flederbush in
“Miami" without the grossest,
funniest shtick from the South
Floridian scene....his message is
nonetheless clear. Life is life is life,
as Gertrude Stein might say.
Singer continually reaffirms his
faith in life. And we. his readers,
are forced to agree.
“Yishar koach." Isaac Bashevis.
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