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Isaac Bashevis Singer (view source)
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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>
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>
==Career==
He was the son of the Hasidic rabbi in a small village in Poland. He moved to Warsaw in the early 1920s and joined the city's Yiddish literati. Coming to New York in 1935, he became an American citizen in 1943. He was a writer for the Yiddish-language daily newspaper ''Jewish Daily Forward'', which published many of his short stories.
==Themes==
==Themes==
Why are we born? why must we die? how can we explain evil? how can we account for desire? For Singer, these abiding questions, and his meditations about them, are the stuff of which his extraordinary capacity for storytelling is made.
Why are we born? why must we die? how can we explain evil? how can we account for desire? For Singer, these abiding questions, and his meditations about them, are the stuff of which his extraordinary capacity for storytelling is made.