Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Jewish writer. He was born in 1904 [?] 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.

Biography

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 Bilgoraj. 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. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1943.

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

Note: the publication years in the following list refer to English translations, not the Yiddish originals (which often predate their translations by ten or twenty years).

• 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)
• (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)

External links

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
• What Yiddish Says article from The Weekly Standard
• An American exile article from The Jerusalem Post