In My Father's Court Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer re-creates his father's rabbinate in a ghetto in Old Warsaw. The housewives, hoydens, merchants, and peasants who flock to No. 10 Krochmalna Street pray, sin, lust, do pennance, break every commandment. The boy who eavesdropped on them has forgotten nothing, and has celebrated their universal pleasures and pains in a book... more » that is surely one of the masterpieces of the century.« less