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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-American writer and Nobel Prize-winning author known for his Yiddish-language stories that explore Jewish life, folklore, and themes of spirituality, identity, and morality. His works often delve into the complexities of human nature, blending realism with mysticism. In his story, “A Wedding in Brownsville,” Singer tells the tale of a man named Dr. Margolin, who returns to Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood for a wedding after many years. As he reconnects with familiar faces, he is haunted by memories of his past, including lost love and the horrors of the Holocaust. The story explores themes of memory, guilt, and the enduring impact of trauma on personal identity and relationships. Q: Who were the Senciminers? Ans. Sencimineers were Jewish villagers from the town of Sencimin, where Dr. Margolin once lived. They are now dispersed due to the devastation of WW II, and some of them attend th...
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University wits a brief introduction

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University Wits The term University wits refers to a group of late 16 th century English writers who were educated at the universities i.e. the Oxford or the Cambridge University. They were popular secular writers of that time. The most prominent members of this group were: Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge) Robert Greene (Cambridge) Thomas Nashe (Cambridge) John Lyly (Oxford) Thomas Lodge (Oxford) George Peele (Oxford) Thomas Kyd Coinage of Terms The term University Wits was not used in their life time. It was later coined by George Saintsbury who was a 19 th century journalist and author. He writes, “The rising sap of dramatic creativity in the 1580’s showed itself in two separate branches of the national tree.” In the first place, we have group of University Wits. They had university education and were men of letters. In the second, we have the players (by players here we mean actors) and other people who felt themselves forced into literacy and pr...
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