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Of her brothers, I.B. Singer (known as Bashevis in Yiddish) moved to New York and became the Yiddish writer best known to non-Yiddish readers, garnering a multitude of translations and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
Esther Kreitman. 2009
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You've even been described as "Isaac Bashevis Singer on crack."
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Evoking Sholem Aleichem, S.Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer and all of the other great Jewish storytellers, Jonathon Keats reminds us that Jewish storytelling is alive and well.
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Second, Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Manor" (1967) and "The Estate" (1969), both masterpieces.
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Grant, some writers better known at the time for their science fiction such as Joe Haldeman, Lisa Tuttle, and Edward Bryant, and mainstream writers such Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joyce Carol Oates (who has since become pretty famous for a dark fiction as well as her mainstream output), Edward Gorey.
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Your debut short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, was a national bestseller in hardcover and paperback, winner of the PEN/Malamud award, and drew comparisons to Anton Chekhov and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Gunnar Brusewitz, the artist provides a description of the diploma he made for Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer helped popularize folk tales about the foolish men of Chelm, a city in Poland.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Shlemiel The First" Klezmer Musical Sings But What's With The Restraint? Michael Giltz 2011
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When I was approached by the Royal Academy, I was advised to benefit from the speech given by Isaac Bashevis Singer, the 1978 Literature Laureate, who started with: "People ask me often, 'Why do you write in a dying language, Yiddish?'"
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“I don't know—do you think Isaac Bashevis Singer—”
Beer Pong With the Nobel Prize Winners Con Chapman 2011
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