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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