Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes


What a strange power there is in clothing.


Citations

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy." Short Friday and Other Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Born: November 11, 1903
  • Died: July 24, 1991
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).