He was taught the Gemara, Jewish law, by his father and the Bible by his mother, who was learned in Jewish studies. Singer did not have a formal secular education. His younger brother, Moishe, the only son to remain an Orthodox Jew, and his mother both died in the Holocaust. His sister Hinde Esther Kreit-man, who suffered from epilepsy and depression, and his brother Israel Joshua, also a Yiddish author, played prominent roles in his life and served as models for a number of fictional characters. His father, Pinchos Menachem Singer, was a rabbi, and his mother, Basheve Zylberman, the daughter of the rabbi of Biigoraj, was a homemaker who was literate in Yiddish. He was the fifth of six children, of whom only four survived childhood. Segal for his nonfiction in the Jewish Daily Forward (the Forward). Varshovsky, a transliteration of a Yiddish name that means “the man from Warsaw” and D. Singer was also known by the names Yitzchok Bashevis for his works in Yiddish Y. 24 July 1991 in Surfside, Florida), Nobel Prize winner in literature (1978) for his Yiddish novels, short stories, and memoirs that have been translated into English and fifteen other languages, and a writer for the American Yiddish newspaper Der Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward).
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