Published: 3 August 2017
Last updated: 5 March 2024
For the first time in English, a short story by the Yiddish master, in which 19th-century Hasidism meets its radical grandchildren in the 20th century (July 23)
Isaac Bashevis Singer receives posthumous award (PETA)
Polish Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer has been honoured with a posthumous PETA award. He fled the Holocaust, observed cattle being whipped and kicked to their deaths in a slaughterhouse, and condemned all needless violence and prejudice, becoming a vegetarian for ethical reasons (Aug 1)
