The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Isaac
Bashevis
(
1904
–
91
), Polish-born Yiddish author, the son and grandson of rabbis, educated at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary. In
1935
he emigrated to New York, in the footsteps of his brother, the novelist
Israel
Joshua
Singer
(
1893
–
1944
), and became a journalist, writing in Yiddish for the Jewish Daily Forward, which published most of his short stories. The first of his works to be translated into English was The Family Moskat (
1950
), which was followed by many other works, including Satan in Goray (Yiddish,
1935
; English,
1955
); The Magician of Lublin (
1960
); The Slave (
1962
); The Manor (
1967
) and its sequel The Estate (
1969
). His collections of stories include Gimpel the Fool (
1957
); The Spinoza of Market Street (
1961
); Zlateh the Goat (
1966
); and A Friend of Kafka (
1970
). Singer's work portrays with...
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