Talk:Isaac Bashevis Singer
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[edit] Possible copyright infringement
Most of the page is by now clearly and obviously created by Wikipedians. Why not just cut and/or replace those few sentences obviously taken from the Nobe-prize-page? Why wait for an "administrator"? Fuxmann 07:14, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Date of birth
The date of birth differs from Find-A-Grave. Lincher 12:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] US Emigration reason
I have recently read Singer's autobiographic novel "Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw". " and certainly none to them being a reason for Singer's emigration to US. From my understanding there were three major reasons for this decision (which was difficult for the author and left him longing for word he left) 1. Fear of growing in power Nazi movement in Reich and correct assumption that it eventually end up with a catastrophe that will destroy whole Jewish word in Central-Eastern Europe. 2. Economic reasons and following of general movement of seeking “better life” behind the ocean. 3. Joining of elder brother.
- I read "Lost in America" and although he doesn't mention antisemitism often, he clearly describes the fear he had when he had to cross Germany by train. I think the trick he uses is not to mention the Nazis too often, whilst making the danger perfectly clear to the reader. I think this is what makes the book so great. 85.2.137.110 12:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] He wrote others....
Issac Bashevis Singer also wrote a short story called "The Washwoman" that I cannot find anywhere! 205.188.116.195 15:31, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
It can be found in "In my Father's Court" (NY 1966)
[edit] Influences
It would be great if someone were to take up the task of identifying influences on Singer. I have heard of Mahatma Gandhi for one.
Singer was influenced by all aspects of the Jewish tradition, with which he grew up with - religious learning, Chassidic mysticism, rational philosophy, folklore - and by modern thinkers which fascinated him from the time of his early youth: Spinoza, Schopenhauer, the Schopenhauer-pupil Eduard von Hartmann and Otto Weininger, whose philosophy he read with critical interest. Singer was able to fuse and put into context very different and highly divergent world-views without, in the end, giving up on the ethical certainities with which he was raised.
[edit] This article contains uncredited material from copyrighted Nobel Prize site
There are several passages in this entry plagiarized from the Nobel Prize site's entry on Singer (http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1978/singer-bio.html), which is copyrighted material and which is not credited (though the page is listed in the external links).
Here is a passage from this Wikipedia entry:
The world of his stories is the world and life of East European Jewry, such as it was lived in cities and villages, in poverty and persecution, and imbued with sincere piety and rites combined with blind faith and superstition. It appears to include everything - pleasure and suffering, coarseness and subtlety. We find obstrusive carnality, spicy, colourful, fragrant or smelly, lewd or violent. But there is also room for sagacity, worldly wisdom and humor.
And the corresponding two passages of the Nobel bio:
It is the world and life of East European Jewry, such as it was lived in cities and villages, in poverty and persecution, and imbued with sincere piety and rites combined with blind faith and superstition. ... Its world, which the reader encounters in Singer's stories, is a very Jewish but also a very human world. It appears to include everything - pleasure and suffering, coarseness and subtlety. We find obstrusive carnality, spicy, colourful, fragrant or smelly, lewd or violent. But there is also room for sagacity, worldly wisdom and shrewd speculation.
Likewise, this passage pasted from this entry:
Among many other themes, it is dealt with in Singer's big family chronicles - the novels, The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), and The Estate (1969). These extensive epic works have been compared with Thomas Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks. Like Mann, Singer describes how old families are broken up by the new age and its demands, from the middle of the 19th Century up to the Second World War, and how they are split, financially, socially and humanly.
And the corresponding identical Nobel text:
Among many other themes, it is dealt with in Singer's big family chronicles - the novels, The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), and The Estate (1969). These extensive epic works have been compared with Thomas Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks. Like Mann, Singer describes how old families are broken up by the new age and its demands, from the middle of the 19th century up to the Second World War, and how they are split, financially, socially and humanly.
There may well be additional examples. - —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.89.192.109 (talk • contribs)
- Yeah, the way this bio reads it sure looks like it was lifted from somewhere....--Tom 17:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
- There are also passages from the PBS American Masters site. This entry seems to be more or less entirely copied from the external sites linked at the bottom.
[edit] Lost in America
"Lost in America" is not mentioned in the publications.85.2.137.110 12:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
"Yentel" or "Yentl" or "Yentel The Yeshiva Boy" - some consistency/fact-checking is needed
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Ibsinger.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
