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Автор Исаак Башевис-Зингер
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Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in 1904 in a village near Warsaw, Poland and grew up in the city’s Yiddish-speaking Jewish quarter. Although he initially considered becoming a rabbi like his father, Singer abandoned his religious studies in his twenties in favour of pursuing a career as a writer. He found a job as a proofreader for a Yiddish literary magazine and began to publish book reviews and short stories. In 1935, as the Nazi threat in neighbouring Germany grew increasingly ominous, Singer moved to the United States of America. He settled in New York, where he worked as a journalist for a Yiddish-language newspaper and in 1940 married a German-Jewish refugee.
Although Singer published many novels, children’s books, memoirs, essays and articles, he is best known as a writer of short stories. In 1978, he won the Nobel Prize, and he died in Florida in 1991.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
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First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1982
Published in Penguin Books 1984
Published in Penguin Classics 2011
Copyright © Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982
Renewal copyright © Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981, 1982
All rights reserved
Many of these stories originally appeared in
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ISBN: 978-0-14-196862-9
