Isaac Bashevis Singer
Novelist, Author
1902 – 1991
Who was Isaac Bashevis Singer?
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won 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 and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
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- Born
- Nov 21, 1902
Leoncin - Also known as
- Icek Hersz Zynger
- Izaak Zynger
- Varshavsky
- Bashevis
- D. Segal
- Izaak Baszewis
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Alma Wassermann
(1940 - ) - Runia Pontsch
- Alma Wassermann
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Polish American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Poland
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 24, 1991
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on July 23, 2013
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