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	Isaac Bashevis Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער or יצחק בת־שבֿעס זינגע)
		Singer published 18 novels, 14 children's books, a number of memoirs, essays and articles, but he is best known as a writer of short-stories which have appeared in over a dozen collections.
		Singer was a prominent vegetarian for the last 35 years of his life and often included such themes in his works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer (1445 words)

	Israel Joshua Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Israel Joshua Singer photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1938
		Israel Joshua Singer (November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Poland - February 10, 1944 New York) was a Yiddish novelist and the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman.
		Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916, and in 1921 became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel_Joshua_Singer (160 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his later work The Slave (1962) Singer returned again to the 17th Century in a love story of a Jewish man and a Gentile (Gentile: In this sense `Gentile' denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; `goy' is a derogatory word for Christians used by Jews) woman.
		Singer settled in New York (New York: A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies), where he started writing as a journalist and columnist for The Forward (The Forward: the forward is a jewish-american newspaper published in new york....
		Singer was also a vegetarian (vegetarian: Eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products) for his last 35 years, primarily because of compassion for animals.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/isaac_bashevis_singer (1491 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / The metamorphosis
		Like his brother, Singer began contributing stories and essays to The Jewish Daily Forward, where he was given precious space in which to explore his past and, all the more significant, a channel through which to build his own readership.
		Singer is one of those who emerged from that polyglot mob, as do, metaphorically, all ethnic writers.
		Itzjok Zynger and Isaac Bashevis Singer -- a metamorphosis to reckon with.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/07/18/the_metamorphosis (2199 words)

	PREVIEW: What Yiddish Says
		Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Leoncin, Poland, the son and grandson of rabbis.
		Singer was said to resemble his mother physically--small-boned, blue-eyed, and red-haired--and, some say, temperamentally; and he reverenced her all his days.
		Singer asked the woman--she was then in her thirties, he perhaps in his late sixties--to tell him what she knew about her family history.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=4783&R=A03B16A24 (3412 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer Papers, Scope and Contents
		The papers of Isaac Bashevis Singer primarily date from his immigration to the U.S. in 1935 until his death in 1991, although a few manuscripts from as early as 1923 and as late as 1995 are present.
		Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Singer (although his outgoing letters to Alma Singer and a few others are present) and dates mostly from the 1940s until Singer's death in 1991, with a few exceptions.
		Although Singer's sister, Ester Kreytman, and his brother Israel Joshua Singer were both novelists, their manuscripts are not present.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/singer.scope.html (734 words)

	Commentary Magazine - A Talmud for Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		...Singer was referring mainly to the fate of the Yiddish language, but he might have said the same of the study of Talmud...
		...Smaller commemorations were held in Israel and in Europe of this ninth completion of the cycle since the practice was synchronized in Vienna in 1923 in the hope of keeping Talmud study alive in the modern era...
		...Singer himself recalls, in an autobiographical EDWARD ALEXANDER is professor of English at the University of Washington...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V90I1P29-1.htm (4078 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Singer's is not exclusively a world of darkness and conflict, however, and it is in part his diversity that has earned him the respect of readers.
		Some have viewed Singer with suspicion, accusing him of being sensational, grotesque, profane, and obscene, and arguing that the evil characters, demons, and imps of his fiction are humiliating and inconsistent with Jewish life.
		Like his father, Singer's mother, Bathsheba, was devout, but, as the son writes, "what a difference between the two of them." She was by nature a skeptic, inclined toward more rationalistic views of religion and human behavior.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1985/1985ag.html (4684 words)

	The Forward Newspaper Online: Deconstructing Bashevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Singer produced an embarrassment of riches; his "Collected Stories" alone, published in 1982, is an unparalleled achievement.
		It is known that Singer, who had been suffering increasing from senile dementia, spent the days before his death — at the age of 87, on July 24, 1991 — in his apartment in Surfside, Fla., in a state of obfuscation, even paranoia.
		It also showcases an essay by Dara Horn on the Singer siblings and the notion of creativity in families (along with an excerpt from "Deborah," the novel by Singer's sister, which was translated by her son, the late literary critic Maurice Carr, and will be reissued in July by The Feminist Press).
	www.forward.com /main/printer-friendly.php?ref=stavans200406241152 (1759 words)

	Israel Joshua Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Israel Joshua Singer (1893-February 10, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Isaac bashevis singer (november 21, 1902 or july 14, 1904 - july 24, 1991) was a nobel prize-winning jewish writer of both short stories...
		(1944 in aix-en-provence) was a music-hall singer and actress....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/israel_joshua_singer.htm (517 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)

	AllRefer.com - Isaac Bashevis Singer (Hebrew Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		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
		Singer's work, often frankly sexual, draws heavily on Jewish folklore, religion, and mysticism and frequently deals with shtetl life in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe.
		Singer is also highly regarded for his hundreds of vivid, imaginative, perceptive, and witty short stories.
		Israel Joshua Singer - Singer, Israel Joshua, 1893–1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0845347.html (344 words)

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		Israel and the world: essays in a time of crisis.
		A concise history of Israel from the earliest times to the destruction of the Temple in A. Dubnow, Simon.
		Israel without Zionists: a plea for peace in the Middle East.
	wso.williams.edu /orgs/wcja/resources/library/Shelf.htm (4967 words)

	Singer, Israel Joshua on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SINGER, ISRAEL JOSHUA [Singer, Israel Joshua] 1893-1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
		Revaluating Jewish identity: a centenary tribute to Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991).
		Singer The Complex: First full biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Singer-I1J1.asp (261 words)

	Singer Family Crest
		The Singer name was originally an Anglo-Saxon name that was given to a person who was a singaere or musician.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Thomas Singer who settled in Virginia in 1635; Michael Singer arrived in Pennsylvania in 1750; John Singer settled in Virginia in 1663; Isaac Singer settled in Virginia in 1773.
		In the Singer coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/singer-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (548 words)

	Personality of the Week - Singer
		Singer adopted the name Bashevis (taken from his mother, Bas-Sheva) to avoid confusion with his famous brother Israel Joshua Singer.
		Singer received success early in his career with his novel Sotn in Goray in 1935.
		Translated from the Yiddish by Elaine Gottlieb and Joseph Singer.
	www.bh.org.il /Names/POW/singer.asp (273 words)

	Holocaust Literature -- A-Z Entries List
		Joshua Charlson has been a lecturer and visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. He is working on a study, based on his dissertation, exploring American cultural representations of the Holocaust.
		She is the author of The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer (Indiana University Press, 1991) and the co-editor of Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (Harvard and JTS, 1992).
		Joshua D. Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor of East European Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University.
	www.routledge-ny.com /holocaustlit/contributors.html (8886 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Brothers Singer, by Clive Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		...Singer's literary influence on his younger brother Isaac was profound, despite the differences in their styles and temperaments...
		...Singer, who, although capable of writing novels in that vein (The Family Moskat, The Manor), is regarded primarily as a master in the realm of fantasy and in the form of the short story or moral fable...
		...Joshua, who died before witnessing the full extent of the Holocaust, describes in his novels the impending destruction of the Jewish community from forces within as well as without...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V77I2P77-1.htm (2339 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Wolitz, The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
		Bashevis Singer's ambivalent dual position is entirely due to the surgical skills of translators, publishers, editors, and, indeed, Singer himself, who was never opposed to any changes in his English translations that would enhance his popularity among readers.
		Singer's work appears as the only case in literary history where it is currently argued that the translation not only can, but in reality does, assume a greater validity than the original.
		Grace Farrell asserts this clearly in her introduction: "Throughout his career Singer would be criticized, particularly by scholars of Yiddish, for not continuing the tradition of sentiment [sic] established by that literature." This assertion can only appear as something of an impertinence when it is made by a scholar who admits to knowing no Yiddish.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exwolhid.html (5000 words)

	The History Buff, Original Historical Autographs & Manucripts
		Singer was born Icek-Hersz Zynger in Radzymin, near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
		To flee from anti-Semitism, and to follow his brother, Singer emigrated to the U.S. in 1935.
		Singer settled in New York, where he started writing as a journalist and columnist for The Forward, a Jewish newspaper.
	www.ehistorybuff.com /issacbsingerbk5.html (654 words)

	AllRefer.com - Israel Joshua Singer (Hebrew Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Israel Joshua Singer 1893–1944, Polish-American novelist and playwright who wrote in Yiddish, older brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
		Pearls, 1923) was acclaimed by the New York publisher Abraham Cahan, who hired Singer as Polish correspondent to his Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward.
		The Brothers Ashkenazi, 1936) details Jewish industrial development before World War I. Singer emigrated to the United States in 1934.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Singer-IJ.html (213 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Last Teller of Tales -- Aug. 05, 1991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1935 the rabbi's son journeyed from Warsaw to New York City to visit his brother, novelist Israel Joshua Singer, and thereby escaped the Holocaust.
		He was unknown at 40, but last week, when I.B. Singer died of a stroke at the age of 87, he was the most applauded Polish-born writer since Joseph Conrad.
		Singer had every right to act the celebrity, yet he was never at home in the modern...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,973549,00.html (160 words)

	A Place in the Country
		But Singer must surely have questioned what he was doing in this "wilderness" so far from his tiny, one-room flat in lower Manhattan and why he'd allowed his young friend, Zygmunt Salkin, to inveigle him into journeying up to the country.
		Refreshments would be served after, and the conversation was rich and heady-the fate of European Jewry; the tense situation in Palestine; the paintings of Marc Chagall; the German-Soviet Pact of 1939, which badly splintered the left; the American economy, still ailing from the Depression.
		Singer, always the self-absorbed loner, demonstrated his antipathy to the Grine Felders in this acid-etched group portrait: "They seethed with those offering ready-made remedies for all the world's ills Some placed all their hopes on Freud, while others hinted that Stalin was hardly as bad as the capitalist lackeys painted him."
	www.brown.edu /Research/Catskills_Institute/memoirs/placeincountry.html (1752 words)

	Jewish Stories From The Old World To The New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Isaac Bashevis Singer, the only Yiddish writer to win the Nobel Prize, said that literature is the window into the soul of a people.
		Singer wrote lovingly of his childhood and his father's rabbinic court in Poland between the two world wars.
		Until his untimely death in 1944, Israel Joshua Singer was even more famous than his younger brother Isaac Bashevis Singer, who later became a Nobel Prize winner.
	www.wshu.org /special/stories.htm (1633 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Isaac Bashevis Singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Among his many awards, I.B. Singer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 as well as the National Institute of Arts and Letters and American Academy award for literature in 1959, the Playboy magazine award for best fiction in 1967, and the National Book Award for fiction in 1974.
		Singer was a conservative defender of Jewish tradition and yet, at the same time, a gadfly who challenged the assumptions of any orthodoxy.
		From the European philosophers, Singer derived respect for skepticism as an antidote to conventional beliefs and blind tradition.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4088 (743 words)

	Isaac Bashevis Singer
		The late Isaac Bashevis Singer used to write in the mornings.
		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.
	www.awardt.com /bio/singer2 (1698 words)

	The Forward Newspaper Online: Singer at 100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Arriving from Poland in 1935, the younger Singer began a writing career that would elevate him to the pages of some of the country's most prestigious periodicals, to the stage of the Nobel ceremonies and, ultimately, into the canon of American literature.
		Among those who best know Yiddish literature and culture, there are still more than a few who see Singer as a lesser talent who dishonored the lost world of the shtetl through grotesque tales of prostitutes and demons.
		He may not have been the most accurate portraitist, or the most popular among his peers and subjects, but he is the one who has left the stamp on the wide world for all of them.
	www.forward.com /main/printer-friendly.php?id=1510 (495 words)

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