Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991)
Author of The Collected Stories
About the Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and memoirs. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. (Publisher Provided) Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland on July 14, 1904. He received a traditional Jewish education, including show more training at the rabbinical seminary in Warsaw. He began writing in Hebrew while he worked for 10 years as a proofreader and translator in Warsaw. In 1935, he immigrated to New York, where he became a journalist for the Daily Forward, America's largest Yiddish newspaper. Most of his stories were originally published in this newspaper in serial form. His first novel, The Family Moskat, was published in 1950. His other works include The Magician of Lublin, The Spinoza of Market Street, The Slave, and A Friend of Kafka. A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw won the National Book Award for children's literature. He received numerous awards during his lifetime including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 and the Gold Medal for Fiction in 1989. He died after suffering a series of strokes on July 24, 1991. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer (Library of America, 149) (Vol 1) (2004) 255 copies
Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories V. 2 : A Friend of Kafka to Passions (Library of America) (Vol 2) (2004) 201 copies
Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America) (2004) 189 copies
The Safe Deposit and Other Stories About Grandparents, Old Lovers, and Crazy Old Men (1989) 15 copies
Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories Set of 3 Volumes (Library of America, Volumes 1 -3) (2004) 14 copies
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 3 : One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah 5 copies
Kaksi maailmaa. 1 : Nousee päivä, laskee päivä / suomentanut Liisa Ryömä: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1996) 4 copies
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and Other Stories: including Short Friday (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions) (2021) 3 copies
Surnud moosekant : [novellid] 3 copies
The Key: Stories 3 copies
The Mirror 2 copies
Gimpel the Fool [short story] 2 copies
The Parrot 2 copies
TALE OF THREE WISHES 2 copies
Yachid and Yechida [short story] 2 copies
דער שפּיגל און אַנדערע דערצײלונגען 2 copies
The Dead Fiddler 2 copies
The manuscript 2 copies
Keile la Pèl-roja 2 copies
La imagen 1 copy
Papeles varios 1 copy
מלך השדות 1 copy
מסעות בשביס בארץ ישראל 1 copy
בית קרנובסקי 1 copy
Shosha . E Altri Racconti 1 copy
ගොවි රජ්ජුරුවෝ 1 copy
The Collected Stores 1 copy
#Error 1 copy
Passions and Other Storie 1 copy
Satan in Gora 1 copy
One Day of Happiness 1 copy
Naftali the storyteller 1 copy
No title 1 copy
No title 1 copy
Short Friday & Other Stories 1 copy
ෂෝෂා 1 copy
Escoria 1 copy
The Fearsome Inn 1 copy
Taibele and Her Demon 1 copy
Schiuma e Racconti scelti 1 copy
Der Fatalist 1 copy
Kal 1 copy
Golem 1 copy
Ást og útlegð 1 copy
Der König der Felder 1 copy
Setrið 1 copy
Cuentos 1 copy
שונאים -סיפור אהבה 1 copy
שונאים-סיפור אהבה 1 copy
Un amigo de Kafka 1 copy
Kruna od perja 1 copy
The Mirror and other stories 1 copy
Letter re: Nadine Gordimer 1 copy
Ole i Trufa 1 copy
O Mago de Dublin 1 copy
Love & Exile 1 copy
Ori 1 copy
Short Friday [short story] 1 copy
Cunegonde [short story] 1 copy
Incendio (in I due bugiardi) 1 copy
Three Tales 1 copy
Felietony, eseje, wywiady 1 copy
Singer Isaac Bashevis 1 copy
The Witch {short story} 1 copy
O Solar 1 copy
Późna miłość 1 copy
The Colony (short story) 1 copy
Hunger 1 copy
The Lecture 1 copy
The Courtship 1 copy
Obsessões e Outras Histórias 1 copy
A Imagem e Outras Histórias 1 copy
Histórias para Crianças 1 copy
Of a world that is no more 1 copy
Alone [short story] 1 copy
Blood [short story] 1 copy
Ništarija 1 copy
Neprijatelji, ljubavna priča 1 copy
Big and Little [short story] 1 copy
Hanka 1 copy
Joy [short story] 1 copy
Sjene nad Hudsonom 1 copy
Die Familie Moschkat 1 copy
Der bal-tshuve 1 copy
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw 1 copy
Varjoja Hudsonin yllä 1 copy
The Fast [short story] 1 copy
Geschichten von der Liebe. Old love — Author — 1 copy
Izgubljen u Americi 1 copy
Moskatin suku 1 copy
Little Boy in Search of God 1 copy
Passions - Stories 1 copy
O Escravo 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 904 copies
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contributor — 508 copies
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974) — Contributor — 290 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 261 copies
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 182 copies
The Children's Treasury: Best Loved Stories and Poems from Around the World (1987) — Contributor — 144 copies
The Jewish caravan : great stories of twenty-five centuries (1935) — Contributor, some editions — 124 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contributor — 92 copies
More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1981) — Contributor — 91 copies
Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars: Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories: An Anthology (2003) — Contributor — 56 copies
Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward (2016) — Contributor — 29 copies
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Contributor — 4 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 6, February 1977 — Contributor — 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1975 — Contributor — 2 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1980 — Contributor — 2 copies
Livros Condensados: A Chave De Rebeca | O Safari De Mrs. Pollifax | Um Dia Feliz | Malevil — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Legal name
- Zynger, Icek-Hersz (birth)
- Other names
- Bashevis
Warszawski
Segal, D. - Birthdate
- 1902-11-21
- Date of death
- 1991-07-24
- Burial location
- Beth-El Cemetery, Paramus, New Jersey, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Poland
USA (naturalized 1943) - Birthplace
- Leoncin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
- Place of death
- Surfside, Florida, USA
- Cause of death
- stroke
- Places of residence
- Radzymin, Poland, Russian Empire
Warsaw, Poland
New York, New York, USA
Miami, Florida, USA - Education
- Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary
- Occupations
- journalist
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
translator - Relationships
- Singer, Israel Joshua (brother)
Kreitman, Esther (sister)
Singer, Joseph (nephew)
Kreitman, Morris (nephew)
Zamir, Israel (son) - Organizations
- The Jewish Daily Forward
- Awards and honors
- Nobel Prize in Literature (1978)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1959)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1965)
National Book Award (1970, 1974)
Itzik Manger Prize (1973) - Agent
- Lescher & Lescher Ltd.
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