| − | '''Isaac Bashevis Singer''' (1902 – July 24, 1991) was a [[Poland|Polish]]-born [[American]] writer of [[short story|short stories]] and [[novel]]s in [[Yiddish]]. Singer was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1978 "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life."<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/</ref> | + | '''Isaac Bashevis Singer''' (born Yitskhok Bashevis, 1904 – July 24, 1991) was an [[American Jews|Jewish]]-American writer of [[short story|short stories]] and [[novel]]s in [[Yiddish]]. |
| | + | Singer was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1978 "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life."<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1978/</ref> |