In Yiddish theater lore it’s told that when the great actor and heartthrob Boris Thomashefsky mounted a production of “Hamlet” on Second Avenue, the sign outside read, “Shakespeare’s Hamlet: ...

There’s a fascinating new war going on in the culture between self-proclaimed “scientific atheists” and theists. Militant atheists who believe There’s a fascinating new war going on in the culture ...

(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 ...

How many shows has Isaac Bashevis Singer written? Isaac Bashevis Singer has written 5 shows including Yentl (Playwright), Teibele and Her Demon (Playwright), Teible and Her Demon (Playwright), Yentl ...

‘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 ...

Deborah Treisman exchanged e-mails with David Stromberg, a writer, translator, and literary critic who lives and works in Jerusalem, and who uncovered Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story “Inventions,” which ...

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 You found “The Boarder,” a previously unpublished story by Isaac Bashevis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...