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Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose vivid evocations of Jewish life in his native Poland and of his experiences as an immigrant in America won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday.
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. He was the recipient in 1978 of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 ...
Singer’s popular success began with the publication of his first collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (1957), and his novel, The Magician of Lublin (1960). Over the next two decades, his popularity grew as he published his stories in magazines such as Harper's and The New Yorker.
Sep 1, 2012 · ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER’S 14 NOVELS in English, memoirs, and hundreds of short stories, set on four continents and in as many centuries, not to mention his children’s books and countless ...
Welcome to the official website of Nobel Prize-winning author, Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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.
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. Prize motivation: “for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to ...
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 26, 1991 · Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose vivid evocations of Jewish life in his native Poland and of his experiences as an immigrant in America won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday.
