description: An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets.
language: Yiddish
title: Scum
titlecomplete: Scum
genres: Literature, Judaism, Polish Literature, Classics, Novels, Judaica, Nobel Prize, Jewish, Fiction, Poland
ratings_count: 427
places: Warsaw
publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux