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(1904-1991) Novelist, short story writer. Born in a Jewish village in Poland, Mr. Singer moved to Manhattan, New York, in 1935 to flee from the rising anti-Semitism. He continued to live there for more than thirty years on the Upper West Side, at 86th and Broadway. His novels, which he wrote in Yiddish, are primarily epic works about Jewish families and the decline of religious faith. They include “The Family Moskat” (1950), “The Manor” (1967), and “The Estate” (1969). His work was published by the “Jewish Daily Forward,” 173-175 East Broadway. Mr. Singer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was a brother of Israel Joshua Singer who also was a novelist.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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New York
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