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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is widely recognized as the most popular Yiddish writer of the twentieth century, but although he was a very public and outgoing figure, much about his personal life remains unknown. Singer was able to recreate the lost world of Jewish Eastern Europe and also to describe the immigrant experience in America. Drawing heavily upon folklore, his work is noted for its mystical strain, but he was also concerned with the problems of his own day. Singer's personal life was marked by contradiction: the son of a rabbi, he struggled with devotion and doubt. Solicitous…
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4 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2008Northwestern University Press · 9780810124820
- Other · English · 2006Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 208 pages · 9780374178000
- Other · English · 2006Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466806627
- Other · French · 2012Éditions de L'Herne · 223 pages · 9782851971661
Yiddish AuthorsBiographyNew York Times reviewedAuthors, biographyCriticism and interpretationSinger, isaac bashevis, 1904-1991