
	Where results make sense

Topic: Isaac Singer

Related Topics

Isaac Merritt Singer

Sewing machine

Utica, New York

Singer Corporation

Daisy Fellowes

Oldway Mansion

Elias Howe

New York City

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Violet Trefusis

Gatling gun

Statue of Liberty

Paignton

George Westinghouse

Angiosperm

	Isaac Singer: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Singer noted that the sewing machine would be more reliable if the shuttle moved in a straight line rather than a circle, with a straight rather than a curved needle.
		Singer was let out on bond and, disgraced, fled for London (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center), taking Mary McGonigal with him.
		Isaac now contended that in fact they had indeed been married under Common Law and accused Mary Ann of bigamy (Having two spouses at the same time), and forced her to sign a renunciation of their prior financial settlement.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/isaac_singer.htm (1699 words)

	Encyclopedia: Isaac Bashevis Singer
		Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: ××¦×—×§ ×‘×Ö·×©×¢×°××¡ ×—×× ×’×¢×¨ or ××¦×—×§ ×‘×ªÖ¾×©×‘Ö¿×¢×¡ ×—×× ×’×¢×¨) (November 21, 1902 or July 14, 1904 - July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Jewish writer of both short stories and novels.
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born Icek-Hersz Zynger in Radzymin, near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
		Singer was a prominent vegetarian for the last 35 years of his life and often included such themes in his works.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Isaac-Bashevis-Singer (448 words)

	Isaac Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Singer was born in Pittstown, New York, the son of Adam Singer, a Saxon immigrant to America, and his first wife Ruth.
		Singer and Co In 1856, manufacturers Grover, Baker, Singer, Wheeler, and Wilson, all accusing the others of patent infringement, met in Albany, New York to pursue their suits.
		Singer expanded into the European market, establishing a factory in Clydebank, near Glasgow, controlled by the parent company, becoming one of the first American-based multinational corporations, with agencies in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Singer (1189 words)

	American Masters . Isaac Bashevis Singer \| PBS
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 24, 1904 in Radzymin, Poland.
		Isaac Joshua Singer is considered one of the major Yiddish writers of the twentieth century, and was the first and greatest literary influence on his younger brother Isaac.
		Though Singer had moved to the United States, he believed in the power of his native language and knew that there was still a large audience that longed for new work, work that would address the lives and issues of their his.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/singer_i.html (753 words)

	Isaac Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Singer was born in Utica, New York, the son of Adam Singer, a Saxon immigrant to America, and his first wife Ruth.
		Singer and Co In 1856, manufacturers Grover, Baker, Singer, Wheeler, and Wilson, all accusing theothers of patent infringment, met in Albany, New York to pursuetheir suits.
		Isaac now contended that in fact they had indeed been married under CommonLaw and accused Mary Ann of bigamy, and forced her to sign a renunciation of theirprior financial settlement.
	www.therfcc.org /isaac-singer-108663.html (1438 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Singer will be in a crumpled suit, the one he bought when he arrived in the Warsaw ghetto from the Polish shtetl.
		Like Nathaniel Hawthorne and C. Lewis, Singer's early stories are often told by or about devils who are trying to tempt and corrupt single souls or whole villages, and this interest in the way that immortality dives and wriggles into our lives becomes more and more of his focus.
		Singer's stories are are suspenseful and eerie, spiritual thrillers that are also psychological case-studies and very funny, or astonishing, satire.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1982/1982ah.html (694 words)

	Isaac Singer
		Singer was enormously prolific, producing 18 novels, 14 children's books and countless articles, reviews, essays and sketches for The Jewish Daily Forward, but the Library of America is right to enshrine him as a short story writer, for it was primarily as such that he was celebrated here.
		Singer was born to a rabbi and the daughter of a rabbi, and his childhood was divided between Warsaw and a succession of shtetls.
		Singer himself remained suspended all his life between these poles of skepticism and faith, never able to choose between the voices of his brother and his father.
	www.tiea.us /b9.htm (1762 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born Icek-Hersz Zynger in the town of Radzymin, near Warsaw, Poland.
		Singer's father appear them as a pious man who is happiest studying the Talmud; his mother is practical and wishes her husband would pay more attention to money and everyday problems.
		Singer's novels have realistic social and natural settings; Singer pays much attention to the plot and characters, especially their sexual passions, but on the other hand he deals with spiritual truths and magic beyond everyday life, which separate his stories from traditional realism.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ibsinger.htm (1546 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography
		Singer began his writing career as a journalist in Warsaw in the years between the wars.
		Like Mann, Singer describes how old families are broken up by the new age and its demands, from the middle of the 19th century up to the Second World War, and how they are split, financially, socially and humanly.
		Singer's earliest fictional works, however, were not big novels but short stories and novellas, a genre in which he has perhaps given his very best as a consummate storyteller and stylist.
	nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1978/singer-bio.html (1250 words)

	City Journal Summer 1997 \| Isaac Singer’s Promised City by Stefan Kanfer
		Singer's editors were broke but grateful; they made up for their parsimony with freedom.
		Singer had been one of the lucky ones: she was allowed to emigrate to Palestine rather than die in a labor camp), still publishing books at the rate of one a year, Isaac debuted as a children's book author.
		Singer gave his Nobel speech in Yiddish—a first—and reminded his audience that astonishments can be found in the real world, as well as the fictive one.
	www.city-journal.org /html/7_3_urbanities-isaac.html (4377 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Singer played the role of the story-telling teacher during most of his two- hour appearance, echoing some of the serious philosophical themes woven through his prodigious output of stories, children's books, novels, plays, scholarly works and humorous sketches.
		Singer went to Cambridge this week at the invitation of the Harvard- Radcliffe Hillel and was introduced by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, at whose house he stayed.
		Singer noted that, over breakfast, he and the rabbi had discussed the Talmud, the Jewish holy book of laws and commentary, sometimes quoting Scriptures passages from memory.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1984/1984h.html (995 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer: Master Storyteller
		When Singer arrived in New York in 1935 at the age of thirty, he spoke exactly three words in English: "Take a chair." It was not an auspicious time to be an immigrant; America was in the midst of the Great Depression.
		Although Singer was already established as a rising star in the Yiddish literary scene in Warsaw with the publication of his novel, Satan in Goray, and as the youngest member of the Yiddish PEN club, he was an unknown in the new world.
		Singer turned to earlier folklore partly as a rejection of the socialist realist trend that defined Yiddish literature in the early twentieth century.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2004-07/singer.html (2761 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography
		Singer's father was a rabbi, a spiritual mentor and confessor, of the Hasid school of piety.
		It treats of a theme to which Singer has often returned in different ways and with variations in time, place and personages - the false Messiah, his seductive arts and successes, the mass hysteria around him, his fall and the breaking up of illusions in destitution and new illusion, or in penance and purity.
		This is one of the most cnaracteristic themes with Singer - the tyranny of the passions, the power and fickle inventiveness of obsession, the grotesque wealth of variation, and the destructive, but also inflaming and paradoxically creative potential of the emotions.
	www.nobel.se /literature/laureates/1978/singer-bio.html (1250 words)

	MSN Encarta - Isaac Singer
		Isaac Merrit Singer (1811-1875), American inventor, who developed the first commercially successful sewing machine.
		Singer continued his efforts, and brought together several related patents to create his popular machine.
		Singer had an acute business mind and initiated a number of important merchandising practices, such as installment buying, advertising campaigns, and the provision of service along with sales.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562103/Isaac_Singer.html (174 words)

	Isaac Merritt Singer, Singer Sewing Machines, Singer presidents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Singer saw his wife labouring over the tedious process of sewing and seaming with her own hands, and simply out of his love for her he devised the sewing machine in order to save her from unnecessary labour.
		Singer patented several new sewing machine prototypes and innovations, but most of his prodigious energy was spent designing and building enormous homes and spectacular carriages, seducing women, and fathering children.
		Singer and his former partner Clark had parted on frosty terms, and Singer stipulated that Clark could not succeed him as president of Singer while he was still alive.
	www.singermemories.com /cast-of-characters.html (2258 words)

	MSN Encarta - Isaac Singer
		Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Polish-born American writer in the Yiddish language, whose work features passion for life and despair at the passing of tradition.
		Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland, and immigrated to the United States in 1935.
		Singer’s first published novel, Der Sotn in Gorey (1935; Satan in Goray, 1955), deals with religious hysteria and the 17th-century pogroms, raids in which Jews in Poland were brutally massacred by Cossacks, a people of southern Russia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569264/Isaac_Singer.html (380 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer
		Singer's young life in the Jewish shtetls of Poland was steeped in Hassidism.
		Singer was a member of the I.L. Peretz Writers Union and a fellow of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America and the American Institute of Arts and Sciences.
		Singer died on July 24, 1991, at the age 87, from a series of strokes.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/biography/Singer.html (561 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Singer's version of the sewing machine was the first to allow continuous and curved stitching, with an overhanging arm that held the needle bar over a horizontal table.
		Isaac Singer, even though his early total sewing machine production and profit margins remained modest, saw the real potential in transferring Samuel Colt's hand-gun manufacturing techniques to the production of Singer sewing machines.
		Singer continued his efforts, however, and by 1860 he had become the largest manufacturer of sewing machines in the world.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/singer.html (596 words)

	AllRefer.com - Isaac Bashevis Singer (Hebrew Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Isaac Bashevis Singer[bAshev´is] Pronunciation Key, 1904–91, American novelist and short-story writer in the Yiddish language, younger brother of I. Singer, b.
		Singer's work, often frankly sexual, draws heavily on Jewish folklore, religion, and mysticism.
		Singer is also highly regarded for his imaginative, perceptive, and witty short stories.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Singer-IB.html (284 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer Receives Centennial Tributes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The centennial of the birth of Jewish-American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer was observed on July 14.
		Singer is the only Yiddish-speaking author to win the Nobel Prize, and his works are known to most readers today through translations.
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Poland, the son of a Jewish rabbi, and grew up absorbing both the intellectual sophistication of Warsaw and the folk customs of the countryside.
	www.voanews.com /article.cfm?objectID=556AD81A-1F6D-460E-AF356F1A9B9E9D73 (849 words)

	Interesting Arcadians - Isaac Singer
		And, on August 14, 1907, "How different the fate of Singer, who, while a journeyman machinist working, subjected to the jibes and jokes of his fellow-workmen who doubted the practicality of the machine, upon his invention of the sewing machine..." Unfortunately, we are not told when this was.
		Isaac Singer's first patent was for a machine for drilling rock, in 1839 while working with an older brother helping to dig the Illinois waterway.
		Isaac submitted to baptism and settled down to the life of a doting father and grandfather, gladly entertaining his various children.
	www.cgazette.com /towns/Newark/history/933787798218.htm (1284 words)

	Singer, Isaac Bashevis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The son of a provincial Hasidic rabbi (see Hasidism), he moved to Warsaw in the early 1920s and became associated with the city’s Yiddish literati.
		Singer’s American career was launched a decade later when his story “Gimpel the Fool” was discovered by Irving Howe, translated by Saul Bellow, and published in the Partisan Review.
		Many of his later works treat the loneliness of old age and the sense of alienation produced in Jews by the dissolution of values through assimilation with the Gentile world.
	www.bartleby.com /65/si/Singer-IB.html (305 words)

	Salon \| The Salon Interview: Isaac Bashevis Singer
		Singer said he served two idols -- the idol of literature and the idol of love.
		In his last interview, on a winter Friday in 1987, Singer sat in his Broadway apartment framed in gray light between two windows, sun setting on the Hudson River, the Sabbath approaching.
		Singer's health fell apart shortly after that afternoon.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1998/04/cov_si_28int.html (1814 words)

	Singer, Isaac Bashevis
		Singer's birth date is uncertain and has been variously reported as July 14, November 21, and October 26.
		Singer evoked in his writings the vanished world of Polish Jewry as it existed before the Holocaust.
		Singer's shorter novels examine characters variously tempted by evil, as in the brilliant circus magician of The Magician of Lublin, the crazed messianism of the 17th-century Jewish villagers in Satan in Goray, and the enslaved Jewish scholar in The Slave.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/548_85.html (471 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Writing in the language of his ancestors, Isaac Bashevis Singer drew a large audience to his depictions of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		His fiction, depicting Jewish life in Poland and the United States, is remarkable for its rich blending of irony, wit, and wisdom, flavoured distinctively with the occult and the grotesque.
		Isaac Newton invented calculus in order to prove his new laws of motion and universal gravitation.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277074 (693 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 24, 1904 in Radzymin, Poland as the son of a Hasidic rabbi and brother of the novelist Israel Joshua Singer.
		Although Singer's works are best known in their English versions, he wrote them in Yiddish.
		Singer's novels are realistic in social and natural detail, but reveal spiritual truths and magic beyond everyday life.
	www.jakvydelat.com /bashevis-singer (545 words)

	Sarmatian Review XVIII.1: Singer
		I often discussed with him this very topic of the lack of dignity, the degradation, the abasement of modern man; his shaky, questionable family life, his greed and lust for luxury, contempt for the old, his narcissistic pursuit of a temporal youthfulness, his blind faith in psychiatry and his increasing tolerance of crime.
		Singer and Dr. Ziolkowska-Boehm are natives of Poland).
		Singer and appeared in Ziolkowska-Boehm's Korzenie sa polskie (Warsaw, 1992).
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/198/singer.html (2556 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer (Rexroth)
		Singer is close to being the most sinewy, grotesque, haunted, bitterly comic, deeply and desperately compassionate of all.
		Isaac Singer is an alienated Zaddik, a Hassid who has found Pascal’s abyss in the Zohar.
		Singer has many virtues, a wiry, inescapable style, an intensely personal, inimitable vision, a Machiavellian wit, but above all else it is the bracing, revivifying character of his insight that makes him important.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/essays/isaac.singer.htm (1092 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories
		To mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of ten American writers to be awarded the Nobel Prize and perhaps the most influential and beloved Jewish-American author, The Library of America presents Collected Stories, a major celebration of Singer's achievement.
		Born in Poland in 1904 into a family of rabbis, Singer was raised in the traditional culture that was to be annihilated during World War II, and his haunting stories testify to the richness of that vanished world.
		Singer's Old World stories reveal a wild, mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism evocative of both local storytelling traditions and dark undercurrents born of Singer's own concerns and obsessions.
	www.singer100.org /loa/stories (321 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)