IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Isaac Merritt Singer of New York, New ...

The day Isaac Bashevis Singer returned to Ellis Island was “a beautiful, cold day,” said the photographer Robert A. Cumins. Singer, who was born in Poland, had first set foot there in 1935 as a ...

‘A Yiddish writer in America is an unseen entity,” Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “almost a ghost.” He offered this comment to explain why he felt inclined in his fables and fictions “to search for ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An actor turned inventor, Isaac Singer democratized clothing production with the sewing machine he patented in 1851.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Some of ...

8.75 x 6 x 6 in. (22.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm.) Signature: Signed and dated "66" to back of bronze portion of the work. On the square wood base, with the metal tag, it says: "Arts in Judaism Award - 1968 ...