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Isaac Bashevis Singer (view source)
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'''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]].
'''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]].
His themes were the clash between tradition and renewal, between other-worldliness and faith and mysticism on the one hand, and free thought, secularization, doubt and nihilism on the other.
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>