The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer

“…fascinatingly details how he and his collaborators made changes in his prose to make it more palatable to English language readers…” (The Hollywood Reporter)

The Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer (Gimpel the Fool, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, and Enemies, A Love Story) was a romantic charmer both on the page and in real life. This delightful, frank documentary explores the little known history of his most vital sources of creative inspiration, his “harem” of women translators. Singer was an unlikely ladies’ man, but admitted to having a problem with one of the Ten Commandments—specifically the one prohibiting adultery—on The Dick Cavett Show. The talented co-directors Asaf Galay and Shaul Betser skillfully combine intimate, poignant interviews with nine of the remaining translators with exclusive archival material to portray the unknown story of an author who enchanted his employees and his audiences alike.

This film is part of the Westchester Jewish Film Festival 2016 series.



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