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Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that civiliz… - Isaac Bashevis Singer
" "Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that civilization and culture are only enhancing man’s insanity.
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About Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער or יצחק בת־שבֿעס זינגער; pseudonym: Icek Hersz Zynger;[1] born 21 November 1902 as Icek Zynger, died 24 July 1991) was a Polish-American writer of short stories and novels in Yiddish; he used his mother's name in devising his penname "Bashevis" (son of Bathsheba). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
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Native Name:
יצחק זינגער
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Isaac Bashevis-Singer
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Yitsḥoḳ Basheṿis
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Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis-Zinger
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Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis- Zinger
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I. B. Singer
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Itzhak Bashevis Singer
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Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis-Zinger
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Isaac Bashevis
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Yitsḥaḳ Basheṿis
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Yitsḥoḳ Bashevis- Zinger
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Isaac Singer
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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