Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (born in
1902 in Leoncin,
Poland, then part of the
Russian Empire, and died on
July 24,
1991 in
Miami, Florida). He won the
Nobel Prize in literature in
1978.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was the son of a rabbi and brother of the novelist Israel Joshua Singer. He grew up in the Yiddish-speaking poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw and in Bilgoray, Poland. In 1935 he emigrated to the USA, where he started writing as a journalist and columnist for The Forward, a Jewish newspaper in New York. Singer wrote nearly all his work in Yiddish.
Singer gave his birth date as July 14, 1904, which is most likely wrong. He was probably born on November 21, 1902.
List of novels
- The Family Moskat (1950)
- Satan in Goray (1955)
- The Magician of Lublin (1960)
- The Slave (1962)
- The Fearsome Inn (1967)
- Mazel and Shlimazel (1967)
- The Manor (1967)
- The Estate (1969)
- Elijah The Slave (1970)
- Joseph and Koza: or the Sacrifice to the Vistula (1970)
- The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China (1971)
- Enemies, a Love Story (1972)
- The Wicked City (1972)
- The Hasidim (1973)
- Fools of Chelm (1975)
- Naftali and the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus (1976)
- Shosha (1978)
- A Young Man in Search of Love (1978)
- The Penitent (1983)
- Yentl the Yeshiva Boy (1983)
- Why Noah Chose the Dove (1984)
- The King of the Fields (1988)
- Scum (1991)
- The Certificate (1992)
- Shadows on the Hudson (1997)
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