Lost in America – Part One of a Memoir by Isaac BashevisSinger
Isaac BashevisSinger, 18 March 1982
“... At the onset of the 1930s, my disillusionment with myself reached a stage in which I had lost all hope. If truth be told, I had had little of it to lose. Hitler was on the verge of assuming power in Germany. The Polish fascists proclaimed that as far as the Jews were concerned they had the same plans for them as did the Nazis. It was summer and the heat engulfed Warsaw ... ”