![]() He published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in 1935, in Yiddish, under the pen name of “Yitzchok Bashevis,” a nom de plume derived from his mother’s first name. Haunted by his own sense of survivor’s guilt, the author wrote out of a personal argument with God.Īs a Protean and prolific writer, with shifting identities, he effectively named himself. With an ironic voice of protest, his earthy, poetic style portrays characters seeking love and truth-in spite of the grand and petty injustices of the world. He concentrated his special genius, however, in a plenitude of short stories. He also published memoirs and children’s books. Singer created historical sagas about the Jews in Poland, from premodern times through the Holocaust. ![]() The first Yiddish author to win a Nobel Prize and the only established American writer who wrote in Yiddish, I. Why does evil exist? That is the question Isaac Bashevis Singer could not stop asking. ![]()
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