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In My Father's Court

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending parade of humanity that marched through their home is a portrait of a magnificent writer's childhood self and of the world, now gone, that formed him. from: http://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Court-Isaac-Bashevis-Singer/dp/0374505926/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340037828&sr=1-1&keywords=In+my+father%27s+court+singer

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Jews, biography -> BiographyIntellectual Biography

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor1967FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Isaac Bashevis Singer86%

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

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