Isaac Bashevis Singer

Satan in Goray

Tale of mystical fervor and false messianism in seventeenth-century Poland

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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.

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