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Isaac Bashevis Singer’s return to Ellis Island, in never-before-seen photos

JL;DR SUMMARY Isaac Bashevis Singer's poignant return to Ellis Island in 1979 is captured in a newly discovered series of photographs by Robert A. Cumins, now published for the first time. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Uja Federation Of New YorkJewish ImmigrationPolandNobel PrizeIsaac Bashevis SingerPhotographyEllis Island9/11Robert A. CuminsWorld Trade Center

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"a symbol of the city in which the author composed much of the staggering body of work that in 1978, a year before the Ellis Island trip, netted him the Nobel Prize."
Ellis Island, New York, United States
"Bashevis Singer speaks in front of an American flag on Ellis Island."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Singer, who was born in Poland, had first set foot there in 1935 as a refugee fleeing antisemitism."

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