I have come to know, though I am not sure about its validity, that in Judaism storytelling and spirituality often go hand in hand. In my mind, this book and Will Eisner's awesome graphic novel "A Contract with God" are soul cousins, maybe because in both of them we clearly see where they are coming from.
The tales vary greatly in theme and content where the ancient always hover over the modern. I loved the way his focus always stays on people, mostly the immigrant community, but the background is not only its American setting but a vast Jewish experience.
Isaac Singer has an uncanny ability to merge realism with Jewish folklore and mythology. Some of the finest short stories I have ever read, and I have not read many. And this new collection of stories, like so much that he writes, represents the most delicate imaginative splendor, wit, mischief and, not least, the now unbelievable life that Jews once lived in Poland." "A Crown of Feathers"-"A Day in Coney Island"-"The Captive"-"The Blizzard"-"Property"-"The Lantuch"-"The Son from America"-"The Briefcase"-"The Cabalist of East Broadway"-"The Bishop's Robe"-"A Quotation from Klopstock"-"The Magazine"-"Lost"-"The Prodigy"-"The Third One"-"The Recluse"-"A Dance and a Hop"-"Her Son"-"The Egotist"-"The Beard"-"The Dance"-"On a Wagon"-"Neighbors"-"Grandfather and Grandson"Īlfred Kazin noted in his 1974 review of the book in The New York Times that: "Isaac Bashevis Singer is an extraordinary writer. The stories appear in the following sequence: The twenty-four (24) stories in this collection were translated from Yiddish (Singer's language of choice for writing) by Singer, Laurie Colwin, and others. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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