a day of pleasure

stories of a boy growing up in Warsaw.

A first print copy of the book upon palm of hand brought as much pleasure perhaps as the young man who wrote a lot of pure and enjoyable autobiographical stories as a prior youth who spent his boyhood as an aware and observant Jewish youth on Krochmalna Street.

The Traditional Poland Of Isaac Bashevis Singer

The genius of this book for children, a compilation of colorful stories made and remembered among a vibrant and alive Polish Hebrew community brings forth stories of the young boy who gets the reward of an additional coin one day for work well done and decides to spend such on pleasures. He embarks that day to go on a carriage ride to buy a rich fruit and find out how those on the fancier side of town live. Isaac Bashevis Singer also writes of daily diligence and Torah studies and the upstairs flat where his family comes from far away to live here. Come to a world where each loaf of bread has the meaning of abundant life and where the rabbi wear black velvet as a youth of the Warsaw Ghetto pens each moment to sound as a glorious heaven. And a trip to the cobbler at the onset of the war while already a resident of this bustling journey Unit No. #12 seemed as a city to the young and aspiring author who saw everything.

From The Book

"No. 12 was like a city. It had three enormous courtyards. The dark entrance always smelled of freshly baked bread, rolls and bagels, caraway seed and smoke. Koppel the baker's yeasty breads were always out in his courtyard rising on boards." "I was ten or so. Mendel was already eleven. I was lean, white skinned with a scrawny neck, blue eyes, fiery red hair." He describes his sidelocks as if ever flowing outward upon a breeze. "Now under the apple tree in the garden I would start a book one day and finish it the next. Often, sitting on an overturned bookcase in the attic, I would read among old pots, broken barrels, and stacks of pages torn from sacred books." (#vacation #dream #summer) The description of his love for the holy books of old came as no surprise to others there.

A National Book Award For Child Books Winner Twice. Also for Crown Of Feathers.

The Rabbi Of Bilgoray. The Grandfather of the author.

And Other Inspirational Information About The Author Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Izaack Baszewis (Literary Pseudonym) his Polish birth name actually Icek Hersz.

As a leader of the movement he wrote and published Yiddish. He wrote a book named The Slave about a Jewish man named Jacob who falls in love with a gentile (non-Jewish) woman whose name is Wanda. He also wrote another beautifully worded book which begins just as that, The Forest which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978