This talk will focus on Singer's first two decades in America—from his early Yiddish writing in The Forward (beginning in 1935) to his first English collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories(published in 1957).

"They Do Not Know It and Do Not Want to Know It": Racial Ignorance, James Baldwin, and the Authenticity of Christian Ethics given by
The Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, S.T.D. James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics