Stories from Israel Yehoshua Singer

The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1978, to Isaac Bashevis Singer (Rodzymin, Poland, 1902-1904? – Surfsid, Florida, 1991), as well as the early death, eclipsed his older brother Israel Yehoshua Singer (Bilgoraj, Poland, 1893 – New York, 1944). The relationship between them was always of mutual admiration. Also his sister Esther Kreitman (Bilgoraj, 1891 – London, 1954) was a novelist. They wrote in Yidis, the Germanic language of the …