Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was born near Warsaw, in 1902 or 1904, the son of a Hasidic rabbi and a rabbi's daughter. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and left it, worked as a proofreader, and wrote in Yiddish after beginnings in Hebrew. His elder brother, also a novelist, had preceded him to America and brought him there in 1935; he left behind his companion and his son. He wrote for more than fifty years for the Yiddish daily in New York, where most of his novels first appeared in serial form. Nobel Prize winner in 1978, he died in Florida in 1991.

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• NovelThe Magician of LublinDer Kuntsnmakher fun LublinIsaac Bashevis Singer · 1959Literature