The King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A devout Jew wandering among Gentile cultures in an unclean world; superstitious, unsophisticated village folk who fear demons and spirits; characters struggling to survive clashes in political, religious and economic systems — none of these situations is new in the fictional world of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Nor is Singer's preference for the role of storyteller rather than that of a thinker with a clearly fixed world view. In The...

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Isaac Bashevis Singer Biographies (7)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

594 words, approx. 2 pages

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Polish-American author, was admired for his re-creation of the forgotten world of provincial 19th-century Poland and his depiction of a timeless Jewish ghetto existe... Read more

Isaac Bashevis Singer

7,060 words, approx. 24 pages

Throughout his long and prolific career, Isaac Bashevis Singer was a writer of seeming contradictions. He wrote solely in Yiddish, a language whose speakers were almost completely wiped out in World W... Read more

Isaac Bashevis Singer

11,197 words, approx. 38 pages

One of the most distinguished and honored of modern writers and certainly deserving of the Nobel Prize for literature awarded him in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer is an anomaly as an American and a nove... Read more

Isaac Bashevis Singer

3,578 words, approx. 12 pages

In his novels and short stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer has created a world of ghosts, dybbuks, witches, and demons, a world of eccentric people strongly rooted in the shtetls of Poland and of disorien... Read more

Isaac Bashevis Singer

12,178 words, approx. 41 pages

Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, first began to write for children in 1966. Three of his first four books were Newbery Honor Books; his fifth, A Day of Pleasure... Read more

Isaac Bashevis Singer

12,092 words, approx. 41 pages

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the only Yiddish writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, was among the most popular and widely read authors of the twentieth century. By the time of his death a... Read more

Isaac Bashevis Singer

3,779 words, approx. 13 pages

Biography EssayIn his novels and short stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer has created a world of ghosts, dybbuks, witches, and demons, a world of eccentric people strongly rooted in the shtetls of Poland... Read more

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Isaac Bashevis Singer Biographies (7)

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Isaac Bashevis Singer