More Stories From My Father's Court

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  The stories in this collection first appeared as newspaper columns in Yiddish in The Jewish Daily Forward between the years 1955 and 1960.

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  19 Union Square West, New York 10003

  Published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  Cover photograph by Roman Vishniac, The Private Entrance to the Study of Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna, 1937, gelatin silver print, © Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy of the International Center of Photography, New York.

  Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott

  eISBN 9781466810082

  First eBook Edition : January 2012

  First paperback edition, 2001

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904—

  [Essays. English. Selections]

  More stories from my father’s court /by Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Curt Leviant.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-374-52798-9 (pbk.)

  1. Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904- Childhood and youth. 2. Rabbinical courts—Poland—Warsaw. 3. Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-

  Translations in English. I. Title

  PJ5129.S49 A25 2000

  839’.143—dc21

  00-037583