In My Father's Court

Like Isaac Bashevis Singers 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 Singers 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 writers childhood self and of the world now gone that formed him.