WRITER

Isaac Bashevis Singer

1902 - 1991

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Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Bashevis Singer has received more than 1,116,517 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Isaac Bashevis Singer is the 221st most popular writer (down from 203rd in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Poland (down from 25th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer is most famous for his short stories and novels about Jewish life in Poland and America.

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  • 90

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  • 10.81

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  • 4.04

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Notable Works

Shosha
1978
Satan in Goray
1955
The magician of Lublin
1960
The family Moskat
1950
Short stories
1982
Ḳnekhṭ
1962

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 221 out of 7,302. Before him are Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, Quintilian, Pierre Corneille, Tomas Tranströmer, and Ferdowsi. After him are J. K. Rowling, Bram Stoker, Torquato Tasso, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Prosper Mérimée, and Dario Fo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 10. Before him are Georgy Malenkov, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, and John Steinbeck. After him are Halldór Laxness, Talcott Parsons, Eugene Wigner, Fernand Braudel, Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Nâzım Hikmet. Among people deceased in 1991, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 8. Before him are Olav V of Norway, Dr. Seuss, Vasily Zaitsev, Yves Montand, Serge Gainsbourg, and Edwin McMillan. After him are Carl David Anderson, Klaus Kinski, Jiang Qing, Klaus Barbie, John Bardeen, and Miles Davis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 28 out of 1,694. Before him are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Janusz Korczak (1878), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), and Eric of Pomerania (1381). After him are Ernst Cassirer (1874), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), and Günther von Kluge (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Isaac Bashevis Singer ranks 5. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Wisława Szymborska (1923), and Janusz Korczak (1878). After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), and Alfred Döblin (1878).

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