Inventions
2015
First Published
2.68
Average Rating
6
Number of Pages
Short story published in The New Yorker. Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer in the 1960s, and published in Yiddish in October 1965, and translated into English by Aliza Shevrin around the same time. It was never published in English until this New Yorker publication.
Avg Rating
2.68
Number of Ratings
22
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Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author · 51 books
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.
