English Romantic Period
The day I got lost (Isaac Barshevis Singer)
THE DAY I GO T LOST Isaac Bashevis Singer AUTHOR´S BIOGRAPHY Was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, The Polish name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother´s first name in an initial literary pseudonym, which he later expanded. He was born in Loincin village near Warsaw, Poland under military partitions by the Russian Empire. The exact date of his birth is uncertain but is a date that Singer gave to his official biographer Paul Kresh. It is consistent with the historical events he and his brother refer to in their childhood memories. His father was a Hasidic Rabbi. His siblings became writers as well. The family moved to the court of the rabbi of Radzymin, where his father became head of the Yeshiva. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND In 1917, because of the hardships or Worl War I, the family split up. Singer moved with ...
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