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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
Isaac
Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born
American writer who wrote in the Yiddish language. He drew heavily on his
peasant background and on the stories of Jewish and medieval European folklore.
He was educated at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary and shortly after his arrival
in the
United States
, he became associated with the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish language newspaper in
New York City
. In 1978, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature
for “an impassioned narrative art” that is rooted in Polish-Jewish culture.
He also won National Book Awards for the children’s book A Day of Pleasure: Stories of A Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and for A
Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. In 1984, his short story Yentl
the Yeshiva Boy was made into a popular motion picture produced by and
starring Barbara Streisand.
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