{"id":3739,"date":"2021-12-17T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2021-12-17T22:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T22:38:19","slug":"in-my-fathers-court-isaac-bashevis-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/arts\/in-my-fathers-court-isaac-bashevis-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Father’s Court \u2013 Isaac Bashevis Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ella Weiner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Folksbiene<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the supervision of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Education Committee of the Workers\u2019 Circle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manager: Y. Halts \u26ac    Benefit for: L. Man<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jewish Settlement House Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telephone: Orchard 4-3785     \u26ac    128 Stenton Street, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957-1958 Season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Father\u2019s Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Bashevis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dramatized and Produced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dovid Likht<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two acts, eight scenes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decorations \u2013\u2013\u2013 Harry Baum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performed \u2013\u2013\u2013 Ben Rosentsveyg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage and Technical Director \u2013\u2013\u2013 Mordekhay Yakhson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy Father\u2019s Court\u201d shows a picture of a life and a neighborhood that is no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rabbinical court is an old institution for the Jews. It began when Moishe Rabeinu chose from the people hard-working men, men of truth, who hated money or robbery, so they should be judges. They found a direct lineage from the court until the Anshi Knesset of glory and the Sanhedrin. The court was a combination of a tribunal, a house of prayer, a university, and \u2013 if you like \u2013 a cabinet for a psychoanalyst, where people with difficult spirits can share what oppresses them. Not only did the court demonstrate that such a combination is possible, it also demonstrated that such a combination is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of the court is that one cannot have justice without divinity; that firm communities with injust proceedings from before the weak and that the best family is that one, that the plaintiff entertains with good will and with a belief in the higher powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The antithesis to the rabbinical court is the inquisition, and all of that court, that makes use of power and acts of violence, all the same if they are right or left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rabbinical court was possibly by a people of deep faith and greater humility. It attained the highest degree in the time when Jews were devoid of any power, devoid of any authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rabbinical court is now gone for the Jews, but I am sure that it will don a new garment and will become a general, decent institution. It is my deepest conviction that the forthcoming court will be a rabbinical court, provided that the world will be moral from now on, not backwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 I. Bashevis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publisher \u201cThe Spring\u201d brings us in Yiddish the best literary creations from the most important Yiddish, Hebrew, and other foreign languages authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957 \u2013 four masterpieces from four big storytellers \u2013 1958<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Bashevis          Zalman Shnier          Sh. Y. Egnun          Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already published<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Bashevis \/ My Father\u2019s Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zalman Shnier \/ The Bastard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Already in print<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E. Hemingway \/ The Old Man and the Sea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sh. Y. Egnun \/ An Ordinary Tale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalog \u2013 Free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ella Weiner Folksbiene Under the supervision of The Education Committee of the Workers\u2019 Circle Manager: Y. Halts \u26ac    Benefit for: L. Man Jewish Settlement House Auditorium Telephone: Orchard 4-3785     \u26ac    128 Stenton Street, New York 1957-1958 Season My Father\u2019s Court By Isaac Bashevis Dramatized and Produced By Dovid Likht Two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-Yj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}