The Forward

The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

(JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out ...
Moviefone

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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 ...
The Forward

How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing

Readers of the Yiddish Forverts in the 1940s would have been familiar with the contributors Yitskhok Bashevis, Yitskhok Varshavski and D. Segal, whose bylines appeared frequently atop articles that ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

The fight over Singer’s identity offers lessons on the pitfalls of decentralized knowledge in the era of disinformation, with some possible insights about Polish ultranationalism. (JTA) — Few things ...
BroadwayWorld

Isaac Bashevis Singer

How many shows has Isaac Bashevis Singer written? Isaac Bashevis Singer has written 5 shows including Yentl (Playwright), Teibele and Her Demon (Playwright), Teible and Her Demon (Playwright), Yentl ...
Jewish Journal

The New York Times Called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s How Wikipedia Warriors Made Him Jewish Again.

Author Isaac Bashevis Singer poses for a portrait outside the S. Rabinowitz Hebrew Book Store on New York’s Lower East Side in 1968. (David Attie/Getty Images) (JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd ...