Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Singer, Isaac Bashevis
(1908–91)
   Yiddish writer. The brother of Israel Joshua SINGER and Esther KREITMAN, Singer was born in Bilgoray, Poland into a Hasidic family. He moved to Warsaw in 1923 and settled in New York in 1935. He was immensely prolific and wrote under the pseudonyms Yitskhok Bashevis, Yitskhok Varshavski and D.Segal as well as under his own name. He contributed for many years to the Jewish Daily Forward and his books include Satan in Goray (1935), Gimpl the Fool (1957), In My Father’s Court (1966), A Day of Pleasure (1969) and A Little Boy in Search of God (1978). In 1978 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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  • SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS — (1904–1991), Yiddish novelist, critic, and journalist. The younger brother of the novelists Ester Kraytman and I.J. Singer , Isaac was born into a rabbinical family in Leoncin, Poland. He grew up in Warsaw, where he made his career until his… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis — Yiddish Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger born July 14?, 1904, Radzymin, Pol., Russian Empire died July 24, 1991, Surfside, Fla., U.S. Polish born U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and essays. He received a traditional Jewish education at the Warsaw… …   Universalium

  • Singer,Isaac Bashevis — Sing·er (sĭngʹər), Isaac Bashevis. 1904 1991. Polish born American Yiddish writer who has published such collections as Gimpel the Fool (1957) and Passions (1975). He won the 1978 Nobel Prize for literature. * * * …   Universalium

  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis — ► (1904 91) Escritor polaco en lengua yiddish. Se dedicó al periodismo y a la literatura. Fue premio Nobel de Literatura en 1978. Autor de Narraciones completas (1982). * * * yiddish Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger (¿14? jul. 1904, Radzymin, Polonia,… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis — (1904 91)    American author, brother of Israel Johua Singer and Esther Kreitman. He was born in Leoncin, Poland, and moved to Warsaw in 1923. In 1935 he settled in New York, where he worked for the Yiddish daily newspaper Forverts. In 1978 he… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis —    см. Зингер, Исаак Башевис …   Писатели США. Краткие творческие биографии

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer — (auch: Isaak Baschewis Singer; jiddisch ‎יצחק באַשעוויס זינגער; Pseudonyme, die er – neben Bashevis – zeitweilig verwendete, waren Varshavsky oder D. Segal; * 21. November 1902 in Leoncin, heute im Powiat Nowodworski (Masowien), Polen; † 24. Juli …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer — Infobox Writer name = Isaac Bashevis Singer awards = awd|Nobel Prize in Literature|1978 birthdate = Birth date|1902|11|21|mf=y birthplace = Leoncin, Congress Poland deathdate = Death date and age|1991|7|24|1902|11|21|mf=y deathplace = Surfside,… …   Wikipedia

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer — Para otros usos de este término, véase Singer. Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer en …   Wikipedia Español

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Singer. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Miami Book Fair International, 1988 Isaac Bashevis Singer (né Yitskhok Hersh Zynger, en yiddish : יצחק באַש …   Wikipédia en Français

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