A YOUNG MAN IN SEARCH OF LOVE by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubleday; 177 pages; $12.95
The world has vanished; Jewish Poland went up in the smoke of the Holocaust. All that remains in the minds of most readers is some pictures, historiesĀand the imperishable memoirs of Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this brief, exalted account of his youth and his country's decline, the author summons memories of Warsaw when intellectuals argued the merits of Marxism, Zionism, atheism and loveĀabove and below all, love. The preternaturally shy Isaac had his difficulties with older women and...