परिचय
जन्म : 21 नवंबर 1902, पोलेंड
भाषा : यिद्दिशविधाएँ : कहानी, उपन्यास, संस्मरण, किशोर साहित्य, बाल साहित्य मुख्य कृतियाँ
उपन्यास : Satan in Goray, Eulogy to a Shoelace, The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, The Slave, The Manor, The Estate, Enemies, a Love Story, The Wicked City, Shosha, Old Love, Reaches of Heaven : A Story of the Baal Shem Tov, The Penitent, Teibele and Her Demon, The King of the Fields, Scum, The Certificate, Meshugah, Shadows on the Hudson
कहानी संग्रह : Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, The Spinoza of Market Street, Short Friday and Other Stories, The Séance and Other Stories, A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories, The Fools of Chelm and Their History, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Passions and Other Stories, Old Love, The Image and Other Stories, The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
सम्मान
Itzik Manger Prize, National Book Award (United States), Nobel Prize for Literature
निधन
24 जुलाई 1991