American Decades
Isaac Bashevis Singer—Nobel Lecture
Lecture
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Date: December 8, 1978
Source: Singer, Isaac Bashevis. "Isaac Bashevis Singer—Nobel Lecture." Available online at http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1978/singer-lectur... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se/ (accessed April 9, 2003).
About the Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) was born in Radzymin, Poland, the son of a rabbi. He taught Hebrew as a teenager, and in the 1920s translated novels and nonfiction works by authors such as Thomas Mann and Knut Hamsun into Yiddish. He attended the Tachkemoni Rabbinical Seminary, in Warsaw, Poland, from 1920–23. In 1935 he immigrated to the United States, becoming a citizen in 1943 and settling in New York. Singer was a writer of novels, short stories, and children's...
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- The Bluest Eye
- "The Ladies Who Lunch"
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Dirty Harry
- Nixon and McGovern: Statements on the Arts
- Valley Curtain
- The Godfather
- The Stages of Joseph Papp
- Young Frankenstein
- Carrie
- "Born to Run"
- "Nashville"
- Isaac Bashevis Singer—Nobel Lecture
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- "A Woman Speaks"
- Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party
- Einstein on the Beach
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