Isaac Bashevis Singer
Writing
July 14, 1904
Died July 24, 1991 (87 years old)
Leoncin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Leoncin, Mazowieckie, Poland]
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 Prize for Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. ...
