Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Polish-American author, was admired for his re-creation of the forgotten world of provincial 19th-century Poland and his depiction of a timeless Jewish ghetto existence. Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 14,...

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the only Yiddish writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, was among the most popular and widely read authors of the twentieth century. By the time of his death at the age of eighty-seven, Singer had received a...

Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, first began to write for children in 1966. Three of his first four books were Newbery Honor Books; his fifth, A Day of Pleasure, was the winner of the National Book Award in 1970....

Singer is considered almost by unanimous consent to be the greatest postwar writer of Yiddish literature. Born on July 14, 1904 in Leoncin, Poland, child of a Chasidic rabbi and pious mother, Singer first made his mark in Yiddish literature in Poland,...

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary...

The novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote in a dying language about a culture that had been killed -- and often, too, about the killing itself -- but he saw life as a succession of wonders. He recalled once that another writer had given him...

In Chelm, a city of fools, every housewife bought fish for the Sabbath. The rich bought large fish, the poor small ones. They were bought on Thursday, cut up, chopped, and made into gefilte fish on Friday, and eaten on the Sabbath. One...

Today is Monday, June 4, the 155th day of 2007. There are 210 days left in the year.Today's highlight in history:On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway began during World War II.On this date:In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon,...

Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co."The opportunity to work with the American master Tom Wolfe is the kind of...

In the following essay, Farrell provides an overview of critical responses to Singer's stories.

In the following essay, Whitfield compares Singer's short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” to Yentl, the film adaptation.

In the following essay, Sherman explores the quest for spiritual self-fulfillment in Singer's story “Androygenus.”