Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Nobel Prize laureate, was always interested in ghosts. That renders it especially fitting that we now have a collection of 19 of his essays delivered from beyond the grave.

(JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out ...

‘A Yiddish writer in America is an unseen entity,” Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “almost a ghost.” He offered this comment to explain why he felt inclined in his fables and fictions “to search for ...

Review of: Old Truths and New Clinches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The critic Joseph Epstein liked to tell the story of an acquaintance who wanted something good to read while on a vacation.

Readers of the Yiddish Forverts in the 1940s would have been familiar with the contributors Yitskhok Bashevis, Yitskhok Varshavski and D. Segal, whose bylines appeared frequently atop articles that ...

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of ...

Shaul Betser and Asaf Galay's documentary recounts the relationships between the Nobel Prize-winning author and his "harem full of translators" By THR Staff The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer - H 2015 ...

A conversation with David Stromberg, a writer, translator, and literary scholar who is the editor for the Singer estate. You found “The Boarder,” a previously unpublished story by Isaac Bashevis ...

The fight over Singer’s identity offers lessons on the pitfalls of decentralized knowledge in the era of disinformation, with some possible insights about Polish ultranationalism. (JTA) — Few things ...

Though Isaac Bashevis Singer still writes his short stories in Yiddish, and though his style and subject matter place him in the great tradition of Yiddish writing, Kenneth Rexroth has called him ...

Author Isaac Bashevis Singer poses for a portrait outside the S. Rabinowitz Hebrew Book Store on New York’s Lower East Side in 1968. (David Attie/Getty Images) (JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd ...