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...early '30s, just before the Holocaust, the Singer brothers left Poland for the promised city. In New York Isaac worked for the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper. "I remember thinking in those days," says the laureate, "if only somebody would guarantee me $15 a week, I could sit down and really do some work." The money was a long time coming. For two decades he was supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer...
...went on to employ dozens of translators-including Joseph, I.J. Singer's son. Though Isaac Bashevis Singer has long since gained fluency in English, he continues to write in his mother tongue. "It strikes one as a kind of inspired madness," Irving Howe once wrote. Counters Singer: "Yiddish contains vitamins that other languages don't have." Choice of vitamins is not his only idiosyncrasy. A vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels, ten children...
Singer's works have been translated into many languages, but he continues to write only in Yiddish. However, he knows English well and will read and conduct his question-and-answer session in English, Gold said...
STOCKHOLM--Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Yiddish author, received the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday...
...wrote almost all of his work in Yiddish, and later translated it into English, either by himself or with the aid of others...