biography
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–91)
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| biography:
| Yiddish writer, born in Radzymin, E Poland (then part of tsarist Russia). He studied in Warsaw, emigrating to the USA in 1935, where he worked as a journalist for the Jewish Daily Forward. He became a US citizen in 1943. He set his novels and short stories among the Jews of Poland, Germany, and America, combining a deep psychological insight with dramatic and visual impact. His novels include The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), The Estate (1970), and Enemies: a Love Story (1972), and he also wrote short stories and stories for children. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. |
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