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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.
Jul 20, 2024 · 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.
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).
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.
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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.
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.
