Israel Joshua Singer

Israel Joshua Singer (also: Israel Joshua, Israel Yehoshua or Joshua Singer Israel; born November 30, 1893 in Biłgoraj, † February 10, 1944 in New York) was a Polish -born Yiddish prose writer and translator.

Life

He was the son of a Hasidic rabbi from the Jewish family Biłgoraj place in today's Poland. His father was Pinchas Mendl Zinger and his mother Batsheva Zylberman. Israel Joshua Singer was the older brother and literary mentor, the Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Both sister was born in 1891 Esther Kreitman ( Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman ), which as a writer left behind as a considerable body of work.

Up to the age of 17 Israel Joshua Singer learned in the great yeshivot and then turned to the literary work to. Since 1916 he worked as an employee ( first as a proofreader, translator and writer opportunity ) of various Yiddish newspapers and revues in Warsaw ( Literary Bleter, Choliastra ) and Kiev (Tue nye tsayt ) and quickly convinced with high literary standing short stories.

In 1921 he became a member of the People's Daily, the New York forward as well as a correspondent for the Jewish Daily Forward ( also New York).

1934 Singer emigrated to the United States, where he died of a thrombosis at the age of only 51 years. Some of his prose works have been performed in ( by Maurice Schwartz worried ) dramatized versions in the Jewish Art Theatre in New York, what his reputation and his fame has increased considerably.

His memoirs of a world that is no longer published posthumously in 1946.

Works / editions (selection)

• Erdweh. Drama in three images, Warsaw 1922
• Clay pits, 1922 ( ליימגרובן )
• Perln, 1923 ( "pearls", short stories )
• Liuk, 1924
• Ojf Naier [or foreign ] Erd, 1925 ( אויף פֿרעמדער ערד )
• Stal un AIZn, 1927 ( שטאָל און אייַזן, his first novel )
• Nai- Rusland. Images a fun Raize, 1928 ( נייַ - רוסלאַנד: בילדער פֿון אַ ריייַזע )
• Josche calf, 1932
• Di brider Ashkenazi, 1937 ( די ברידער אשכנזי; novel)
• The river breaks up, 1938
• Chawer Nachman, 1938 ( חבר נחמן; novel)
• East of Eden, 1939 ( novel)
• Di mishpokhe Karnovski, 1943 ( די משפחה קאַרנאָווסקי; drama); German: The Karnovski family
• Fun a velt vos iz nishto mer, 1946 ( פֿון אַ וועלט וואָס איז נישטאָ מער ); German: from a world that is no longer
• Wili, 1948 ( ווילי )
• Derzeilungen, 1949 ( דערציילונגען; " narratives " )

Literature / Sources

• Perez Markish, in: World Books, 1922
• Salomon Wininger: Great Jewish National Biography. Volume V, 1925 ff
• Travel, leksikon ... 1926 ff
• Encyclopedia of Judaism, etc. Gütersloh 1971
• Brockhaus encyclopedia in twenty volumes, 17th edition, volume 17, Wiesbaden 1973
• Stemberger, History of Jewish Literature, 1977