Singer festival starts in Lublin region
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
19.07.2017 11:13
A festival celebrating the life and work of Polish-born Jewish author in Yiddish Isaac Bashevis Singer has started in a dozen towns in the eastern Lublin region.
![A bench commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer in Biłgoraj. Photo: Przemysław Czopor [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/6fb0060e-ef94-4b8e-ac77-0bc424f9847c.file "A bench commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer in Biłgoraj. Photo: Przemysław Czopor [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
A bench commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer in Biłgoraj. Photo: Przemysław Czopor [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
In each town audiences will be able to see a literary-musical outdoor show combining circus performances and acrobatics with theatre and live music.
Performers from Poland, Israel, Armenia, Burkina Faso, Italy and the Czech Republic will take part.
The aim of the "In the footsteps of Singer" festival is to commemorate the life and work of Singer - the author of the novel "The Magician of Lublin" and short stories set in towns around the Lublin region - and to evoke the memory of the Jews that these places were once home to.
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.
The festival runs until 27 July.
(pk)
Source: PAP