Israel Joshua Singer
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Israel Joshua Singer (1893-February 10, 1944) was a Yiddish novelist and the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press since 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.
His works include:
- Steel and Iron (1927)
- Yoshe Kalb (1932)
- The Brothers Ashkenazi (1937)
