Isaac Bashevis Singer

November 1988 photograph of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He wrote mostly in Yiddish. Mr. Singer wrote about Jewish life in Eastern Europe in short stories, essays and novels. He was born in a small village outside of Warsaw, Poland in 1902 and died in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. 1991.

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

―Isaac Bashevis Singer

Works

Some of his works include

• Gimpel the Fool
• Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
• The Golem a version of the legend of the Golem of Prague.
• Enemies, a Love Story
• Shadows on the Hudson

Related

• Famous Jews
• Jewish Nobel Prize winners

External links

• Bography on the Nobel Prize site
• Article on PBS.org (U.S. Public Broadcast Station)
• Quotes of Isaac Bashevis Singer on brainyquote.com
• Wikipedia's article on Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Isaac Bashevis Singer on Literature Wiki