Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dictionaries had no idea what disastrous

had no idea what disastrous fate was to befall them

exaggeration

on equality with their lovers

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

Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsed Jew—until

Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dictionaries had no idea what disastrousFrom 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new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Clichs collects nineteen essaysmost of them previously unpublished in Englishby Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than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