1L. S. Friedman, Understanding Isaac Bashevis Singer, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1990, p. 8.
2Irving Howe, "In the Day of a False Messiah," in Grace Farrell ed., Critical Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: G. K. & Co.,1996, p. 29. Also in The New Republic 133 (31 October 1955), p. 20.
3Irving Howe, "I. B. Singer," in Irving Malin ed., Critical Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: New York University Press, 1969, p. 100. Also in Irving Howe, ed., The Introduction to Selected Short Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Random House, 1966, p.i, p. 101, p. 101-102, p. 109-110.
4Edward Alexander,Isaac Bashevis Singer-A Study of the Short Fiction, Preface , Boston:Twayne Publisher, 1990, p. xii.
5Stanley Edgar Hyman, "Isaac Singer's Marvels,"in Critical Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer, p.36.
6I. B. Singer, "The Yiddish Writer and His Audience," in Creator and Disturbers : Reminiscences by Jacish Intellectuals of New York, New York:Columbia University Press, 1982, p. 32.
7Sol Gittleman, From Shtetl to Suburbia: The Family in Jewish Literary Imagination, Boston: Beacon Press, 1978 , pp. 51, 54, p. 51, p.57, p.55.
8J In My Father's Court, A Little Boy in Search of God, A Young Man in Search of God Mand Lost in America.
9Joseph C. Landis, "I. B. Singer-Alone in the Forest," in Critical Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 120, p. 121.
10I. Goldberg, "Esayen," in Critical Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer, p. 121.