Shadows on the Hudson

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"Shadows on the Hudson" is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published posthumously in English in 1998. The book had previously been serialized in the Yiddish newspaper Forverts during the 1950s. It is a large-scale work that explores the lives of Jewish refugees in New York during the late 1940s. Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish-born American writer, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 for his fiction, which often depicted Jewish life with a blend of irony, wit, and wisdom, frequently incorporating elements of the occult and grotesque.1

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Shadows on the Hudson, translated into English and published posthumously in 1998, is a novel on a grand scale about Jewish refugees in New York in the late 1940s. The book had been serialized in the Forverts in the 1950s.
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Shadows on the Hudson, translated into English and published posthumously in 1998, is a novel on a grand scale about Jewish refugees in New York in the late 1940s. The book had been serialized in the Forverts in the 1950s.
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