Summary Singer I. B
Isaac (Isaac, Isaac) Bashevis Singer (July 11, 1904, Leonchin, the Kingdom of Poland, the Russian Empire – July 24, 1991, Miami, Florida, USA) – American Jewish writer, lived and worked in New York, In New York. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1978. He wrote in Yiddish.
He was born in 1904 in the small village of Leonchin near Warsaw. The date of his birth is not known exactly. The boy’s father was a rabbi of the Hasidic school. The boy studied in a traditional heder; was very fond of reading. In 1920, Singer entered a yeshiva, but dropped out of school in a few months.
In 1923 Singer arrived in Warsaw, where he remained for a long time. At first Singer began to work as a proofreader in the Jewish literary magazine. At this time, the young man opens an interest in philosophy, physiology, psychology, as well as natural and occult sciences. It was during this period that Singer tried to write prose.
In 1927, in the magazine where Singer works
In 1933, Singer became deputy editor of the literary magazine Globus. In the same journal in 1934 his novel “Satan in Gorai” was gradually printed. The whole novel was published in 1943.
In the thirties, the writer had to endure many blows to fate. In Germany, the Nazis were in power. Singer left Warsaw, went to the United States. Here he had a hard time, he had a creative crisis. In 1937 the novel “Messianic Sinner” was published.
In 1940, Singer married Alma Wasserman, who was, like him, an emigrant. Three years later he received American citizenship. In 1944, the writer again experienced a creative crisis associated with the death of his elder brother. In 1945, Singer began work on the “Moskat Family”.
In 1964, the writer became the first honorary member of the National Institute of Arts and Culture. And in 1969 he was awarded the National Book Award for Children’s Literature.
In 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer was awarded the highest writer’s award – the Nobel Prize for Literature “For the emotional art of narration, which, rooted in Polish-Jewish cultural traditions, raises eternal questions.”
The writer died on July 24, 1991.
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