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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer (b. 1904 in Radzymin, Poland, d. 1991) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was the son of a rabbi. He emigrated in 1935 to the USA, where he started writing as a journalist and columnist for The Forward, a Jewish newspaper in New York. Singer wrote nearly all his work in Yiddish.