Penitent Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer Joseph Shapiro is a Polish Jew who, after a disastrous foray into the modern American world of business, loose morals, and failed marriages, has returned to Jerusalem to embrace Orthodox Judaism. With the fervor the of the re-converted, he denounces the callow sinfulness of the world, even as he lustfully eyes every stewardess who walks past him... more », every woman who sits next to him--craving them, and yet insisting they are placed there by Satan to lure him back into immorality.« less