Israel Joshua Singer photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1938

Israel Joshua Singer (November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Poland - February 10, 1944 New York) was a Yiddish novelist and the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. Image File history File links Israel_Joshua_Singer. ... Image File history File links Israel_Joshua_Singer. ... Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: none Image:Bilgoraj Mapa. ... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... Yiddish (Yid. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער or יצחק בת־שבֿעס זינגער) (November 21, 1902 or July 14, 1904 - July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Jewish writer of both short stories and novels. ... Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (1891-1954), known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. ...

Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916, and in 1921 became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward. He wrote his first novel, Steel and Iron, in 1927. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. He died in New York City in 1944. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Forward is a Jewish-American newspaper published in New York. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ...

His wonderful memoir Of a World That is No More appeared posthumously in 1946. His other works include:

• Steel and Iron (1927)
• Yoshe Kalb (1932)
• The Brothers Ashkenazi (1937)