1904-1991

• Born July 14, 1904 in Leoncin, Poland • Attended Warsaw seminary to be a

Rabbi• Decided to be a writer• Worked as journalist for Yiddish press• Emigrated to the U.S. in 1935 • Became reporter for Daily Forward in

New York City

• Married Runia Pontsch • son Israel Zamir born 1929• Separated from Runia when he

moved to New York • Married German-Jewish immigrant

Alma Wassermann in 1940• Had a brother Israel Joshua Singer

and sister Esther Kreitman

• Satan in Goray~1935• The Family Moskat~1950• The Magician of Lublin~1961• In My Father’s Court~1966• The Manor~1967• The Estate~1969

• National Book Award for children's literature for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw in 1969

• Nobel Prize in literature in 1978 • Gold Medal for Fiction in 1989

• Continued to write for Daily Forward

• Published new material until death• Died in 1991 after a series of

strokes