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The author of more than forty books now available in twenty-nine languages, Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland, in 1904. The son and grandson of rabbis (and himself a rabbinical student from 1920 to 1927), Singer eventually followed in the more secular footsteps of his older brother, Israel Joshua, a novelist. In 1935, the same year he published his first novel, Satan in Goray, I. B. Singer left the Yiddish literary community in Warsaw to join his brother on the staff of The Jewish Daily Forward. Until his death in 1991, Singer retained his close association with New York’s oldest Jewish newspaper by contributing columns, reviews, stories, and essays in Yiddish to its pages. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, and twice won the National Book Award.
Curt Leviant has translated the work of Sholom Aleichem and Chaim Grade and is the prizewinning author of five novels: The Yemenite Girl, Passion in the Desert, The Man Who Thought He Was Messiah, Partita in Venice, and Diary of an Adulterous Woman.