Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
This section contains 3,578 words
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Isaac Bashevis Singer

In his novels and short stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer has created a world of ghosts, dybbuks, witches, and demons, a world of eccentric people strongly rooted in the shtetls of Poland and of disoriented émigrés haunted by memories of the shtetls as they walk the streets of Manhattan or Miami Beach. Singer has created a world that reaches beyond the perimeters of traditional Yiddish literature, of people yearning for erotic love and of people possessed by perverse or even demonic kinds of love. His fictional universe has fascinated readers from America to Japan and has carved for Singer a permanent niche both in Yiddish literature and in the literary history of the world--a niche strengthened by his winning two National Book awards and the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. Singer writes his works in Yiddish, often having them serialized in the Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily...

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