(Fiction, 280 pp. Yiddish, 1966; English translation, 1972)
This unusual take on the love story tells the tale of a Holocaust survivor and his three wives in 1950s New York City, presented with humor and pathos in Singer’s ironic style.
- Review: Kirkus
- Profile by Linda Matchan, Boston Globe, August 25, 1985
- Review (of film adaptation) by Sanford Drob, Jewish Review, March 1990
- Review (of film adaptation) by Hal Hinson, Washington Post, January 19, 1990
- Essay by Musharraf Ali Farooqui, Library of America, November 23, 2015
- Harold Flender interviews Isaac Singer, Fall 1968
- Biographical sketch
- Video excerpt from “Isaac in America” (7 min.)
- Audio excerpt: Studs Terkel interviews Isaac Singer (6 min.)
- Biographical sketch
