Spiritual Life And Spiritual Crisis Of Jews In Singer's Novel

Throughout his life, Singer had been concentrating his effort on the core issue of Jews and their cultural existence. Through the analysis of key characters in Singer's representative novels, we can understand that the concern in Jew's living conditions and situations seen in Singer's novel always focus on the spiritual life and spiritual crisis under modern cultural shock and traditional cultural crisis. Moreover, they also show a vivid description and disclosure of the crisis on Jew's spiritual belief, emotional dilemma and lost of self.In how to deal with the issue of Jewish traditional beliefs, Singer's novels, on the one hand, accept the traditional beliefs on it's salvation of Jewish identity and national cohesion; on the other hand reflects the traditional beliefs and culture of questioning and the reality of the impact and challenges Problem. In most cases, the novels ended up with their returning to the Jewish tradition, which clearly expressed Singer emphasis on the traditional beliefs and the ideological tendency of traditional morality.As an important part of spiritual life, the human emotional life issues are also of particular concern to Singer's novel. Although Jews are always the main target of Singer's novel, has been works of the center, but his description and reflection on emotional life of the Jews, also highlights an unprecedented crisis and confusion in the emotional life of modern people. In this sense, Singer's novels are of allegorical meaning and inspiration since it can avoid the fate of emotional desert caused by emotional maze.Spiritual crisis caused by such dilemmas as belief and doubt, tradition and modernity, religion and secularity, coupled with the expanded desire, temptated impulse, shattered dreams stimulated by the seculasion of environment, finally led Jews to a loss of self (self-identity crisis) being. Where is the way to solve this spiritual crisis? Herman and Yasha in Singer's novel represent his exploration on this issue in different periods.However, the choice of two heroes are still not his final answer.Singer's fiction shows a deep concern,heavy anxiety and multi-saving quest on Jew's spiritual life and spiritual crisis Jewish, on the one hand, can be of valuable exploration Significance and reference value for the succession of ancient cultural heritage and reconstruction of national spirit; on the other hand, it may also provide an allegorical ideological inspiration on the salvation in the context of global modernization and cultural crisis.