Modern Yiddish Literature

I.B. Singer's ghost haunts Jewish literature to this day.

Esther Singer Kreitman was a published author, but she was overshadowed by her brothers.

Not everyone admired Singer's fiction.

The big screen likes I.B. Singer--but he didn't always like it.

The life and work of Yiddish literature's Nobel laureate.

Yiddish writers emigrated from Europe, and though Yiddish writing all but ceased after the Holocaust, it is seeing a small rebirth today.