Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dictionaries Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsed

Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsed Jew—until

Arranged thematically—from school days to the holidays—the book takes readers from Jewish holidays and history to folktales and fables

exaggeration

(With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations

on equality with their lovers

Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dictionaries Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsedFrom the Nobel Prizewinning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Clichs collects nineteen essaysmost of them previously unpublished in Englishby Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best known workincluding the literary arts, Yiddish and Jewish life, and