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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Also known as: Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger
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Category: Arts & Culture
Yiddish in full:
Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger
Born:
July 14?, 1904, Radzymin, Poland, Russian Empire
Died:
July 24, 1991, Surfside, Florida, U.S.
Awards And Honors:
Nobel Prize
National Book Award
Notable Works:
“Gimpel the Fool”
“In My Father’s Court”
“Satan in Goray”
“Shadows on the Hudson”
“The Estate”
“The Family Moskat”
“The Magician of Lublin”
“The Manor”
“The Spinoza of Market Street”
Notable Family Members:
brother I. J. Singer
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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. His fiction, depicting Jewish life in Poland and the United States, is remarkable for its rich blending of irony, wit, and wisdom, flavored distinctively with the occult and the grotesque. Singer’s birth date is uncertain and has been variously reported as July 14, November 21, and October 26. He came from a family of Hasidic rabbis on his ...(100 of 817 words)

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