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Pakn Treger
Summer 2004 / 5764 (Number 45)
FEATURES
 Singer’s Typewriter… and Mine by Ilan Stavans
(3,514K PDF)
What makes literature and what makes it great? Stavans compares his own artistic development with that of Singer, each striving to become an American writer while bearing the heavy weight of a Yiddish past.
Who’s the Fool?: Isaac Bashevis Singer in American by Naomi Seidman
(361K PDF)
“Gimpel the Fool” could be Singer’s best-known story, an apparently seamless tale about Jewish faith and shtetl life. But what subversive element got lost in translation, and why does it matter?
Picturing Singer: Photographs by Bruce Davidson
Known for his images of the civil rights movement, street life, and subways, Davidson turned his camera on his New York neighbor and friend in the 1970s. The result is a remarkable portfolio that probes the secrets behind a famous face.
My Mother, Hindele by Maurice Carr
Never before published, this memoir about Singer’s sister Esther Kreitman, by her only son, reveals a life that was plagued by misfortune but nonetheless produced its share of lasting literature.
TRANSLATION
The Mathematician by Isaac Bashevis Singer
(997K PDF)
Since it appeared in Yiddish in the Forverts in March 1974, Singer’s story about a possessive husband who persecutes his loving wife has been unknown in English. Now Pakn Treger presents it as translated – and transformed – by the author.
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