
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Wikipedia
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 [1][2][3] – July 24, 1991) was a Polish -born Jewish novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the …
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Encyclopedia Britannica
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer of novels, short stories, and essays in Yiddish. He was the recipient in 1978 of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Biography — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Singer continued to write and translate his stories and novels throughout the 1980s, until the onset of dementia in 1987. He died on July 24, 1991, in Surfside, Florida, and was buried in …
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Jewish Virtual Library
Singer, whose writings have been translated from Yiddish into Hebrew, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Finnish, stands as a giant and legend of our Yiddish writers of our time. …
Isaac Bashevis Singer – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
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 …
About Isaac Bashevis Singer - PBS
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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Library of America
Apr 23, 2018 · The works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the seventh American citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, raise these questions in fascinating ways. He was born in Poland …
Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography - Notable Biographies
Jul 24, 1991 · I saac Bashevis Singer, a Polish-American author, was admired for his recreation of the forgotten world of nineteenth-century Poland and his depiction of a timeless Jewish ghetto …
Singer, Isaac Bashevis - YIVO Encyclopedia
(1904–1991), Yiddish writer; in translation, among the most widely read authors of the twentieth century. The son and grandson of rabbis on both sides of his family, Isaac Bashevis Singer …
Isaac Bashevis Singer - Yiddish Book Center
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born Yitskhok Zinger in 1904 in Radzymin, Poland, and grew up on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. He was the son and grandson of distinguished rabbis.