Isaac Bashevis Singer - Stories Of Isaac Singer - 11/21/85 by westminsterforum published on 2016-03-01T00:36:44Z Isaac Bashevis Singer began his literary career in his native Poland as a journalist for the Yiddish press. He published his first novel in 1935 and, in that same year, immigrated to the United States where his stories and novels have received high acclaim. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 and is the recipient of two National Book Awards and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Genre Westminster Town Hall Forum