Shosha

1978 · Book · Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I WAS brought up on the three dead languages-Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish (some consider the last not a language at all)-and in a culture that developed in Babylon: the Talmud.”

*Shosha* is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The original Yiddish version appeared in 1974 in the *Jewish Daily Forward* under the title *Neshome ekspeditsyes (Soul Expeditions).* The main character is aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s: "I was an anachronism in every way, but I didn't know it, just as I didn't know that my friendship with Shosha [..] had anything to do with love." by Isaac Bashevis Singer