Visiting Jerusalem in 1969, Isaac Bashevis
Singer is approached in the vicinity of the Wall
by an American who introduces himself as Jo-
seph Shapiro, a man who has a story to tell.
Singer guesses that he is a baal tshuve, a penitent.
Yes, he tells the author, "bad tshuve means one
who returns, l came back home." The Penitent,
the story of Joseph Shapiro, is Singer s latest
novel. Originally published in Yiddish as Der
Baal Tshuve, the novel was immediately recog-
nized by its readers as one of Singer s most seri-
ous, and perhaps finest, works. Because of its
inwardness, somc critics predicted it would
never bc translated: "It will likely never be read
in the many languagcs his other works have
been translated into," wrote a reviewer in Jew-
ish Life. But as a key work in the oeuvre of this
winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The
Penitent is now made available.
l-he story begins with Joseph Shapiro s rapid
climb to prosperity in postwar America, his
quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subse-
quent flight to Israel. He wants to escape from
his unfaithful wife, (, ella; his nagging mistress,
l,iza, and her money-mad daughter, Micki. On
the plane he has a comic encounter with the at-
tractive Priscilla, who reappears later in the tale.
On his arrival in Tel Aviv he finds that much of
modern Israel is little more than an extension of
America: worship of the Golden Calf is world-
wide. Only in the orthodox scetion of Jerusa-
lem, Meah Shearim, does Shapiro begin to find
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