LITTLE LETTER TO MOM

Yiddish is my native language, and Mom never dies. Thus, American Jewish writer Yitzhak Bashavis-Singer stated in a speech at the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Bashavis-Singer insisted on continuing his mother's male as a significant part of his family name, which appears in the title of most of his works. The hero of the story is a small letter to Mom is unable to sing the Shlur that everyone is humming around, because the words repeated in the refrain - "Don't be late to write a small letter to Mom" ??- remind him that he has not written a word to his mother since leaving his home in Eastern Europe and leaving her behind. He knows that "you have to be crazy or killer to abandon a widow mother and not even write a word." This book includes two short stories from Bashavis-Singer's best. Both were published in New York, in the 1960s. "A small letter to Mom" ??has never been translated into Hebrew so far and this is a premiere appearance. Each of these stories presents its own way o