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Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine [ 1 ] and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company .
Hadda, Janet (1997), Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life, New York: Oxford University Press. Kresh, Paul (1979), Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street, New York: Dial Press. Roberta Saltzman. Isaac Bashevis Singer: a bibliography of his works in Yiddish and English, 1960–1991. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8108-4315-3
201. The Magician of Lublin (Yiddish: דער קונצנמאַכער פֿון לובלין, romanized: Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin) is a novel by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. [1][2][3] Though originally written in Yiddish, it was first published in English in 1960 in the United States by Noonday, [1][4] and in 1961 in the United Kingdom ...
The 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish-born American Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life." [1] He wrote prolifically in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English ...
228 pp. ISBN. 0-374-51522-0. OCLC. 31348418. Enemies, A Love Story (Yiddish: Sonim, di geshikhte fun a libe) is a tragicomedy novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer first published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward on February 11, 1966. [1][2] The English translation was published in 1972. [3]
October 11, 1966. Awards. Newbery Honor (1967) Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories is a 1966 book of short stories written by Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The stories were translated from Yiddish, which was Singer's language of choice for writing, by Singer and Elizabeth Shub. Maurice Sendak provided illustrations for the book.
publ. Farrar Straus & Giroux. A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. [1] The twenty-four (24) stories in this collection were translated from Yiddish (Singer's language of choice for ...
Shosha is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The original Yiddish version appeared in 1974 in the Jewish Daily Forward under the title Soul Expeditions . [ 2 ]