Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Not a Typical Yiddish Writer" 

i'm not sure what a typical yiddish writer is as I don't speak yiddish but what I do know is that Bashevis Singer is such an outstanding writer that he should be rated far higher than he currently is. In my opinion he was probably the most talented writer in the 20th Century

Thank you this was what i was looking for,

When I met with Singer at lunch at a Berkeley, California writer's conference, he bemoaned the appalling lack of crime-victims' rights compared to treatment of criminals. He wanted strong police to protect the innocent. I didn't take this as a political view per se--more a deep empathy with the people suffering injury at the hands of human predators. IMO he was a sharp cookie with A+ radar for the California BS that passes as political ideology.

I knew I liked him.

But he read so many gentile authors that were secular too...

Zuckerman says Singer was alienated from the progressive politics of the secular yiddish culture that supported him. Maybe that's true, but the example he gave -- Singer's admiration for the support of police by then California governor Ronald Reagan, may have been a late development for Singer. Where was the center of secular Jewish (if not yiddish) culture to replace Warsaw and Vilna in the postwar years, if not NYC? And what did the Bundists want, but that people of working class income such as Zuckerman's parents could live in safe, affordable housing with public transportation and good public schools where they could send their children? And were did such conditions exist, if not in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side in the 1940s and '50s? And what was happening to these neighborhoods in the years of Ronald Reagan's governorship? I'll tell you what was happening. Increasing crime and violence, committed almost entirely by newcomers, was driving out working class Jews and scattering them. When the Tzar authorized the Cossacks to loot and rob the stetlach of Russia, he did not destroy those communities as thoroughly as these NYC communities were destroyed by rising crime tolerated by NYC's left and liberal political forces. This was not solely a NYC problem; the architects of LBJ's "Great Society" saw to it that this became a nationwide problem. Perhaps, in contrast to the Tzar, they were motivated by good intentions -- but so what? Suppose Yiddish culture had lasted a few more generations. After the era of the 1960s New Left, where in pre-Giuliani NYC could someone trying to scratch out a living as a yiddish poet afford to live? And what would life be like there for his childrent?