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Isaac Bashevis Singer (view source)
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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.
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>[[File:Gimpel.jpg|thumb|200px]]
==Career==
==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.
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.
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''Shadows on the Hudson'' (tr. 1997).
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''Shadows on the Hudson'' (tr. 1997).
===Short story collections===
===Short story collections===
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories V. 1 Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer'' (Library of America, 2004)
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''Gimpel the Fool'' (tr. 1961)
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''Gimpel the Fool'' (tr. 1961)
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''The Spinoza of Market Street'' (tr. 1961)
* Singer, Isaac Bashevis. ''The Spinoza of Market Street'' (tr. 1961)