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Isaac Bashevis SingerIsaac Bashevis Singer was a Jewish writer. He was born in 1904 ? in Leoncin, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), and died on July 24, 1991 in Miami, Florida). He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. Biography Isaac Bashevis Singer was the son of a rabbi and brother of the novelist Israel Joshua Singer. He grew up in the Yiddish-speaking poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw and in Bilgoraj. In 1935 he emigrated to the USA, where he started writing as a journalist and columnist for The Forward, a Jewish newspaper in New York. Singer wrote nearly all his work in Yiddish. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1943. Singer gave his birth date as July 14, 1904, which is most likely wrong. He was probably born on November 21, 1902. List of novels Note: the publication years in the following list refer to English translations, not the Yiddish originals (which often predate their translations by ten or twenty years). External links Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Issac B Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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