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Also Known As Yitskhok Bashevis Zinger
Born July 14, 1904? • Poland
Died July 24, 1991 • Florida
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Nobel Prize
Notable Works “Gimpel the Fool” • “In My Father’s Court” • “Satan in Goray” • “Shadows on the Hudson” • “The Estate” • “The Family Moskat” • “The Magician of Lublin” • “The Manor” • “The Spinoza of Market Street”
Notable Family Members brother I. J. Singer

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