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Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine [ 1 ] and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company .
Hadda, Janet (1997), Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life, New York: Oxford University Press. Kresh, Paul (1979), Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street, New York: Dial Press. Roberta Saltzman. Isaac Bashevis Singer: a bibliography of his works in Yiddish and English, 1960–1991. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8108-4315-3
The Magician of Lublin (Yiddish: דער קונצנמאַכער פֿון לובלין, romanized: Der Kuntsnmakher fun Lublin) is a novel by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Though originally written in Yiddish, it was first published in English in 1960 in the United States by Noonday , [ 1 ] [ 4 ] and in 1961 in the ...
The choice of Isaac Bashevis Singer was well received. The New York Times' Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote: "if influence and appeal are standards of Nobel excellence, then Singer is a worthy choice. For he has carried on the tradition of such Yiddish story-telling masters as Mendele, Aleichem, Peretz and Asch, and he has influenced a ...
The Family Moskat is a novel written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, originally written in Yiddish.It was Singer's first book published in English.. Singer became a literary contributor to The Jewish Daily Forward only after his older brother Israel died in 1944. [1]
The Slave (Yiddish: דער קנעכט, romanized: Der Knecht) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer originally written in Yiddish that tells the story of Jacob, a scholar sold into slavery in the aftermath of the Khmelnytsky massacres, who falls in love with a gentile woman.
The documentary [2] Isaac in America: A Journey With Isaac Bashevis Singer is a characterization of the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was filmed only a few years before he died, and depicts the author looking back on his professional and life experiences. Singer is best known for his Yiddish stories, which have
Enemies, A Love Story (Yiddish: Sonim, di geshikhte fun a libe) is a tragicomedy novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer first published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward on February 11, 1966. [1] [2] The English translation was published in 1972. [3]