“I am angry at God because of what happened to my brothers”
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in th…
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culture · Jewish American author (1903–1991) · translator · novelist · Esperantist · autobiographer · journalist · children's writer · screenwriter · prose writer · Nobel Prize winner · writer · also Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Bashevis-Singer, Yitsḥoḳ Basheṿis, Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis-Zinger, Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis- Zinger, I. B. Singer
Born 21 November 1903 · Died 24 July 1991 · Q75612
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2026· 4 entries
“In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka,”
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“her works are rooted in Jewish folklore and are faithful to Jewish life and the Jewish spirit.”
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BroadwayWorld: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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2022· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ’Old Truths and New Cliches’ Review: Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Lost Essays
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2004· 1 entry
Morning Call PA: Celebrating the legacy of Isaac Bashevis Singer ** Author’s centennial brings to fore his story of Europe’s pre-wat shtetl lives
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1992· 1 entry
“Sholem Asch and Isaac Bashevis Singer”
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1991· 10 entries
Died 1991-07-24.
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“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.”
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“Tylko to, co jest indywidualne, może być sprawiedliwe i prawdziwe.”
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“Człowiek jest jedyną istotą wstydzącą się być tym, czym jest.”
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“Bibliotekarz uśmiechnął się i zaznaczył coś na kartkach. Wręczył mi książki i ledwie powstrzymałem się przed pocałowaniem go w rękę. Wezbrała we mnie fala wielkiej czułości w stosunku do tego dobrego człowieka oraz dojmujące pragnienie przeczytania, co jest napisane w tych książkach.”
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“I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”
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“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - \ to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, \ world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars — we must make a statement. And I think it´s a strong one.”
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“When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.”
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“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”
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“if you keep on saying that everything is going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet”
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1986· 1 entry
“When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It”
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1984· 2 entries
Signed a letter protesting German arms sales to Saudi Arabia
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The New York Times published Singer's self-interview, where he disapproved of the film
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1982).
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1981· 2 entries
Won Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal (1981).
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Singer delivered a commencement address at the University at Albany and was presented with an honorary doctorate
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1979· 1 entry
“something—call it spirit or whatever—is still somewhere in the universe. This is a mystical kind of feeling, but I feel there is truth in it.”
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1978).
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award for A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
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“every human being, if he is a real, sensitive human being, feels quite isolated. It is only the people with very little individuality who always feel that they belong.”
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Itzik Manger Prize (1973).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw (1970).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize for The Family Moskat (1968).
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1940· 1 entry
And their union seemed to release energy in him; he returned to prolific writing and to contributing to the Forward
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1938· 2 entries
In order to live a typical kibbutz life there
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Met Alma Wassermann (née Haimann) (1907–1996), a German-Jewish refugee from Munich
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1935· 1 entry
Four years before the Nazi invasion, Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States
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1933· 1 entry
Singer published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in installments in the literary magazine Globus, which he had co-founded with his lifelong friend, the Yiddish poet Aaron Zeitlin
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1923· 1 entry
His older brother Israel Joshua arranged for him to move to Warsaw to work as a proofreader for the Jewish magazine Literarishe Bleter, of which the brother was an editor
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1921· 1 entry
Singer returned to Warsaw
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1917· 1 entry
Because of the hardships of World War I, the family split up
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1908· 1 entry
The family moved to Warsaw, a flat at Krochmalna Street 10
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1907· 1 entry
Where his father became head of the Yeshiva
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1903· 2 entries
Born 1903-11-21.
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To a Jewish family in Leoncin village near Warsaw, Poland
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