I.J. joins I.B. with his own Facebook ‘Appreciation Society’
| 2:06 PM Oct 26, 2009
Among the dwindling ranks of Yiddishists, Isaac Bashevis Singer is not the superstar your Hebrew School teacher would have had you believe. “I. B. Singer wasn’t half as good a writer as I. J. Singer—I. B.’s older brother, Israel Joshua—who had died in 1944,” the experts kvetch, according to a 2004 New Yorker article by ...
A reissued novel shines a light on the most neglected Singer sibling
| 7:00 AM Jun 24, 2009
Alongside Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joshua there was a third Singer, Hinde Esther, the oldest of the Orthodox clan that spent its formative years in the Polish shtetls immortalized in Bashevis’s oeuvre. A trailblazer, she was the first in her family to set her ideas down on paper, but her early work is lost and only two novels survive. One of those, Der Sheydim Tants, has just been reissued.
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As it progressed, the playwright’s autobiographical trilogy grew more dark—and more true
