Summary of A Day of PleasureÂ
“A Day of Pleasure” is a collection of childhood memoirs by Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. The book comprises 19 short stories in which Singer describes his experiences growing up on Krochmalna Street in the Jewish district of Warsaw.
Reasons to read A Day of Pleasure
“A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw” provides a beautiful panorama of life in the Hasidic Jewish community of Warsaw in the early 20th century. Although originally written for children, the book is a compelling read for adults too. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish-American author, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. “A Day of Pleasure” won the 1970 U.S. National Book Award for Children’s Literature. Singer also received the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction for his short story collection “A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories”. Some of his other works are “The Family Moskat”, “The Magician of Lublin”, and “The Golem”. Singer wrote most of his novels in Yiddish and later translated them to English.
Setting: Warsaw (Poland)
Book set in Poland: Krochmalna street in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw.
Original title: A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw
Year of publication: 1999
Nr of pages: 227
