The Washwoman By: Isaac Bashevis Singer Biography: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Isaac Singer was born on July 14, 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. He was a writer of novels, short stories, and essays in Yiddish. in 1950, he published his first major novel, The Family Moskat. Then he wrote a collection of short stories, including “Gimpel The Fool” and “The Spinoza of Market Street”. One of the greatest achievement was when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He received a traditional Jewish education at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary. His older brother was the novelist I.J. Singer and his sister the writer Esther Kreytman (Kreitman). 1925 was the year when he published the story “In Old Age”, his first novel, Satan in Goray, was published in Poland. His most important novels are The Family Moskat (1950), The Magician of Lublin (1960), and The Slave (1962). During the 1960s, he worked in his most important work from the time; A Love Story, that is about the emoti...
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