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The day I got lost (Isaac Barshevis Singer)

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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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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jeyson Linares) JANE AUSTEN was born in North-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775. During the 1790's she wrote the first drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey; her trips to Kent and Bath gave her the local color for the settings of these last two books. Jane fell ill in 1816 - possibly with Addison's Disease - and in the summer of 1817, her family took her to Winchester for medical treatment.  She died on 18th July 1817. Her life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution abroad and unrest at home. The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the year after Austen’s birth, signaled the start of the American Revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.  Austen's novels provide an accurate record of that moment in English history in which high bourgeois society most eviden...
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The washsoman (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

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The washwoman Isaac Bashevis Singer Author´s biography Personal information Name: Isaac Bashevis Singer Birthdate:  November 21st, 1902                         Radzym, Poland Nationality: American Mother tongue: Yiddish Death cause: Stroke Death date: July 24th, 1991                     Miami, Florida                   United States of America He was groomed for Hasidim, attending a Warsaw seminary, after  completing his seminary studies  he decided on  a writing career.  He worked as a journalist for the Yiddish press in various parts of Poland. Emigrating to the United States in 1935, Singer became a reporter for the Daily Forward in New York City  America's largest Yiddish newspaper. Although he personally adapted to his new country, his early liter...
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