Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
Books by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The Slave
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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After massacres, a ransomed Jewish slave and a Polish woman fall in love, risking everything to escape societal judgment and their own consciences in a fight for survival and identity.
The Family Moskat
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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In early 20th-century Warsaw, the lives of patriarch Meshulam Moskat and scholar Asa Heshel Bannet show a thriving Jewish community, unaware of its coming destruction.
The Magician of Lublin
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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In 19th-century Poland, a Jewish-Gentile magician known for his escapes and illicit affairs grapples with the ultimate trick: shedding his past, his faith, and his many loves to find true freedom.