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| | Isaac Bashevis Singer - Biography |
 | | Singer's father was a rabbi, a spiritual mentor and confessor, of the Hasid school of piety. |
 | | 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. |
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