Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-American author who wrote primarily in Yiddish and is widely regarded as one of the great storytellers of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, the only Yiddish-language writer to receive this honor.
Works
- The Family MoskatEpic multigenerational saga of a Jewish family in Warsaw
- The Magician of LublinStory of a con artist magician in Jewish Lublin seeking spiritual truth
- Satan in GorayTale of mystical fervor and false messianism in seventeenth-century Poland
- The SlaveHistorical novel of a slave's forbidden love across religious boundaries
- ShoshaLove story set in Warsaw during the final days before World War II