The Spinoza of Market Street Summary
Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Spinoza of Market Street Summary

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "The Spinoza of Market Street" was first published in Esquire magazine in 1961, later anthologized in The Spinoza of Market Street, Singer's second collection of short stories. Irving Malin describes the title story as "clearly one of Singer's best," while Paul Kresh observed that this volume, which inspired Irving Howe to declare Singer "a genius," "marked another step in Isaac's acceptance as one of the great short-story...

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