Singer Celebration (And A Little Dissent)

July marks the 100th anniversary of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s birth. The novelist and short-story writer was the only Yiddish author to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1978). “Throughout the summer and fall, media and cultural centers all over the country will devote time and energy to celebrating Singer, one of the most famous Jewish writers of all time.” But not everyone is applauding…