Escape to Warsaw: Isaac B. Singer and the Contemporary

“He noticed that the shops on Marszalkowska Street displayed good-quality goods in their windows and that the women were dressed as fashionably as in Paris and Berlin. The streets were wider, the buildings taller. Although the Jewish Quarter had changed less than the rest, even here one could sense the new times.” Reading Isaac Bashevis Singer and his Return to Krochmalna Street (published in Italy by Adelphi), one is immediately and literally trapped in the human magma of Warsaw. Even today, and especially today, the Polish capital is experiencing a period of great economic and cultural euphoria, worthy of a trip.