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Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of his works were adapted for the theater.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (born July 14?, 1904, Radzymin, Poland, Russian Empire—died July 24, 1991, Surfside, Florida, U.S.) was a Polish-born American writer of novels, short stories, and essays in Yiddish.
Biographical. In one of his more light-hearted books, Isaac Bashevis Singer depicts his childhood in one of the over-populated poor quarters of Warsaw, a Jewish quarter, just before and during the First World War. The book, called In My Father’s Court (1966), is sustained by a redeeming, melancholy sense of humour and a clear-sightedness free ...
Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography Born in 1903, in the Polish town of Leoncin, and residing briefly in a Hasidic court in Radzymin, Singer’s family eventually moved to Warsaw and lived on Krochmalna St. – which became the setting for many of his stories and novels, including his autobiographical work In My Father's Court (1967).
Welcome to the official website of Nobel Prize-winning author, Isaac Bashevis Singer.
The first Yiddish author to win a Nobel Prize and the only established American writer who wrote in Yiddish, I. B. Singer created historical sagas about the Jews in Poland, from premodern times through the Holocaust. He also published memoirs and children’s books.
Jul 24, 1991 · Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978. Born: 14 July 1904, Leoncin, Russian Empire (now Poland) Died: 24 July 1991, Surfside, FL, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 was awarded to Isaac Bashevis Singer "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life"
Jun 8, 2003 · Isaac Joshua Singer is considered one of the major Yiddish writers of the twentieth century, and was the first and greatest literary influence on his younger brother Isaac. In New York,...
A Singer of Stories in his Ninth Decade, Isaac Bashevis Singer is at the Height of his Popularity, Appeal and Productivity. Singer under police guard in Sweden because of anti-Semitic letters. Singer's Many Dimensions of Love. Singer's Stories are for Everyone.
