Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 24, 1904 in Radzymin, Poland. His parents were religious Jews and pushed him towards a career as a religious scholar.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991).. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ‘A Yiddish writer in America is an unseen entity,” Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “almost a ghost.” ...

BASHEVIS’S DEMONS, which debuted in Stockholm in December 2023, will make its official Off-Broadway bow at Theatre 154, 154 Christopher Street (between Greenwich & Washington Streets), with ...

In the 1952 prayer, however, Bashevis Singer opens by addressing God in conventional language while making a characteristically humanistic request: “Master of the Universe, fill my heart with ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer is to Yiddish what Israeli author Shai Agnon is to Hebrew; both embodied the languages they spoke, both brought those languages into the 20th Century, and both made a ...

Books How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner’s essays for the Forward, talks about the ...

Amos Gitai’s Golem, running until April 3, is adapted from a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Intended for young readers, the tale was published in Yiddish in the Forward in 1969.

Somewhere in Heaven, Singer must be smiling, or cursing. For years, he wanted to compile and publish a book of his essays. Thank God it finally happened – in my lifetime, at least.

Bashevis's Demons, based on the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, will be presented at Out of the Box Theatre from December 18 to January 5.

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s only son dies at 85 Israel Zamir, Israeli journalist and author, to be buried Monday in Kibbutz Beit Alfa. By Marissa Newman 23 November 2014, 4:43 pm Edit.

Bashevis’ Demons, an evening of three staged Singer stories, is playing at Theatre 154 in the West Village.Starring Shane Baker and Miriyem-Khaye Seigel, the show played Buenos Aires, Stockholm ...