Forward, June 12th, 1998
Forward 06-12-1998 Alfred Kazin's Bridge
I met Alfred Kazin because of I.B. Singer. It was 1991 and I'd been working at the Forward for less than a year when Singer, the Nobel Prize-winning master of Yiddish fiction, died. The next day the phone rang. "This is Alfred Kazin. I'd like to write something about Singer." If Singer himself had been on the line, I could hardly have been more surprised -- or delighted. Both men, to my mind, inhabited a peak of literary Olympus, but I had not understood how connected Singer's Yiddish-speaking world was to Kazin's mandarin American literary milieu. O...
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