Bio translated by Catherine Temerson
The Yiddish Master
by D.T. Max for NY Times Books (Dec. 24, 2006)
“Most biographies tend toward hagiography or pathography, but there’s a third kind of life critique that doesn’t honor and doesn’t criticize either. These works, which I’ll call interrogatories, ask probing questions but neglect to answer them. Florence Noiville’s new work on the American Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer is such a book.”
