Singer festival starts in Lublin region
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
25.07.2016 08:30
A festival celebrating the life and work of Polish-born Jewish author in Yiddish Isaac Bashevis Singer starts on Monday in ten cities in the south-eastern Lublin region.
A bench commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer in Biłgoraj. Source: Przemysław Czopor via Wikimedia Commons.
The aim of the "In the footsteps of Singer" festival is to commemorate the life and work of Singer – author of the novel "The Magician of Lublin" and short stories taking place in towns around the Lublin region – and to evoke the memory of the Jews that these places were once home to.
The festival program includes artistic installations, performances, guided walks, screenings of documentaries about the pre-war Jewish towns in the region and readings of Singer’s works.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) grew up in Warsaw and in Biłgoraj in the Lublin region. Biłgoraj and its surroundings play an important part in his work, in which he vividly described the Jewish communities of the period.
He emigrated to the United States in 1935. In 1978, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (mol/pk)
Source: PAP