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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 male novelist, translator, autobiographer, and Esperantist who wrote in Yiddish, English, Polish, and Esperanto. A member of the Jewish people, he was born in Leoncin, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Poland, and the United States. Singer began his work period in 1927 and was employed by Bard College. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Singer received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Award, the Itzik Manger Prize, and the Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal. He was the sibling of Esther Kreitman and Israel Joshua Singer. He used the pseudonyms Bashevis, Warszawski, and D. Segal. Singer was a vegetarian who died of a stroke in Surfside, Miami, on July 24, 1991. His manner of death was natural causes.

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

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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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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Singer
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Place of birth
Radzymin
Place of death
Miami
Sibling
Israel Joshua Singer
Employer
Bard College
Languages spoken
Polish
Native language
Yiddish
Image
Dan Hadani collection (990044399930205171) (cropped).jpg
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
date of birth
1904-00-00
date of death
1991-00-00
cause of death
stroke
ethnic group
Jewish people
lifestyle
vegetarianism
manner of death
natural causes
member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
name in native language
יצחק זינגער
start of work period
1927-00-00
pseudonym
D. Segal
has works in the collection
Minneapolis Institute of Art
writing language
English language
personal library at
Harry Ransom Center
archives at
Harry Ransom Center
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
described at URL
dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer
end of work period
1991-00-00
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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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