He not only writes fiction but for the past forty-five years he has also written free-lance articles, reviews, and essays for the
Jewish Daily Forward. More recently he has also contributed to such magazines as
Commentary, Esquire, Midstream, and the
New Yorker. Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland, the son and grandson of rabbis who intended for him to become a religious scholar. He and his family moved to Warsaw when Singer was four, and he grew up there except for spending three years in his grandfather's village of Bilgoray when he was an adolescent. Experiences in Bilgoray later became the subjects of many of Singer's tales of shtetl life. Influenced by his older brother Israel Joshua, who later achieved prominence as a Yiddish novelist, Singer dramatically shifted his interests from sacred to secular writing. He followed his brother to America in 1935, leaving behind him a wife and a son. He settled in New York City and launched his career by associating with the Jewish Daily Forward. In 1937 Singer met a German-Jewish immigrant woman named Alma Haimann, who became his wife three years later.
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