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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Amy Hack as Yentl in a scene from 'Yentl' by the Kadimah Yiddish Theatre. (Courtesy of Kadimah)
April 2, 2026, 5:08 pm
A 19th-century drama hit with post-Oct. 7 fallout: Award-winning ‘Yentl’ goes to London
Running through April 12, an acclaimed Australian adaptation of the classic Isaac Bashevis Singer story travels abroad, despite what its writer describes as a global aversion to Jewish art
By Lianne Kolirin
This is an October 10, 1978 photo of Nobel-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer at home in his Miami Beach apartment. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
June 9, 2022, 4:18 am
Long-dead author Isaac Bashevis Singer wanted you to see these unearthed essays
‘Old Truths and New Cliches’ is made up almost entirely of works previously unpublished in English, handpicked by the Nobel laureate and edited by scholar David Stromberg
By Yaakov Schwartz
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/ via JTA/ SUE)
June 9, 2021, 10:25 pm
How Wikipedia warriors made ‘Polish writer’ Isaac Bashevis Singer Jewish again
It takes a global village to unerase the great Yiddish-language writer’s religious/ethnic identity on the ‘democratized’ online encyclopedia
By Asaf Shalev
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his Miami Beach apartment, October 10, 1978. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
June 5, 2021, 7:29 am
1952 prayer by Bashevis Singer found scrawled on rent slip in unpublished trove
Unseen collection comes out next spring; writer and scholar David Stromberg discusses the Nobel laureate’s religious ambivalence, and why his liturgical Hebrew plea resonates today
By Yaakov Schwartz
Journalist and author Stephen Shepard. (Courtesy)
August 22, 2018, 11:51 pm
Media giant traces secular Jewish roots in the leaves of great American authors
Promoting his new book, former editor-in-chief of Business Week, Stephen Shepard, says writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth ‘make it okay’ to be a non-religious Jew
By Rich Tenorio
Actress Natalie Portman quotes Jewish author Isaac Bashevis Singer in a video for PETA released on July 16, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 16, 2018, 3:43 pm
Natalie Portman video for PETA compares animal treatment to Holocaust
Actress, animal rights group activist honors Isaac Bashevis Singer, a vegetarian and animal rights pioneer who wrote in a novel, ‘We do to God’s creatures what the Nazis did to us’
By ToI Staff
Famed Yiddish author Shalom Aleichem, whose centennial yahrzeit was May 22, 2016, seated at his writing desk. (Courtesy YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
June 24, 2016, 2:31 am
100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian
Since the Soviet regime prevented proliferation of the writer’s anti-communist religious nostalgia, these new translations are a first glimpse into shtetl life for many
By Julie Masis
Journalist and author Israel Zamir (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
November 23, 2014, 4:43 pm
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s only son dies at 85
Israel Zamir, Israeli journalist and author, to be buried Monday in Kibbutz Beit Alfa
By Marissa Newman
Noted archivist of Yiddish folk music Chana Mlotek. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
November 7, 2013, 11:57 am
Yiddish song expert Chana Mlotek, 91, dies in NYC
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer dubbed Mlotek and her husband ‘the Sherlock Holmeses of Yiddish folk songs’
By AP
Several of the 15,000 reels of film owned by NCJF, the world’s largest archive of Jewish-content film, outside of Israel. Shown here are 35mm reels of the 1948 Polish Yiddish feature 'Unzere Kinder' (Our Children), starring comedians Dzigan & Shumacher with child Holocaust survivors. (photo credit: courtesy National Center for Jewish Film)
June 29, 2013, 11:39 pm
Jewish history, saved one frame at a time
The National Center for Jewish Film archive is in a race to restore the Jewish century before it bites the dust
By Matt Lebovic
A painting that still hangs in a cathedral in Sandomierz, Poland, depicts Jews murdering Christian children for their blood. (Courtesy of Zygmunt Miłoszewski)
January 26, 2013, 5:27 pm
Crime novelist finds ‘Truth’ in anti-Semitic blood libel
Polish writer Zygmunt Miłoszewski explains how an ancient lie inspired his latest book — newly available in English — and reflects on the charged history of Jews in Poland
By Matt Lebovic
January 4, 2013, 12:37 am
Synagogue, Jewish museum to be part of replica Polish town
Bilgoraj institutions will showcase author Isaac Bashevis Singer and life before the Holocaust
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