Book Review: When the Angels Left the Old Country & Bashevis Singer
Description
Episode 7 // Season 5
אַ ליטעראַרישער עפּיזאָד. אונדזער גאַסט לאָרענץ רעדט װעגן אַ נײַ בוך און איך רעד װעגן באַשעװיסען.
A literary special - our guest Lorenz talks about an English book, “When the Angels Left the Old Country” by Sasha Lamb (2022) and I talk about the sometimes controversial Yiddish literary figure, Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Transcript
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