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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Also known as Isaac Bashevis-Singer, Yitsḥoḳ Basheṿis, Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis-Zinger, Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis- Zinger, I. B. Singer, Itzhak Bashevis Singer, Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis-Zinger, Isaac Bashevis

Polish-American writer (1904–1991)

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Isaac Bashevis Singer was a novelist, translator, autobiographer, and Esperantist who wrote in Yiddish, English, Polish, and Esperanto. Born in Leoncin, Radzymin, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Poland, and the United States. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he worked for Bard College.

Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Award, the Itzik Manger Prize, and the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal. He died of a stroke in Surfside, Miami, in 1991. His siblings were Esther Kreitman and Israel Joshua Singer. He was a vegetarian and wrote under pseudonyms including Bashevis, Warszawski, and D. Segal.

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Person · Open Library

Born
November 21, 1902
Died
July 24, 1991
Works
735

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Writing · Leoncin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Leoncin, Mazowieckie, Poland]

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – 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. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel…

Known for

  • Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer — Self1986
  • Apostrophes — Self1975
  • Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard — Self1973

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Active from
1902
Active to
1991

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
47
Total plays
254

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He is also well known for his memoir of his life, A Day Of Pleasure. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Isaac+Bashevis+Singer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,673x

  2. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,572x

  3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,706x

  4. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,664x

  5. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,186x

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Quotes

  • “We must believe in free will — we have no choice.”
  • “I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”
  • “As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”
  • “Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”
  • “I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”
  • “I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Literature1978

    “for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life”

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Encyclopedic overview

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).

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