Israel Yehoshua Singer (Biłgoraj, Poland, 1893 - New York, 1944) began publishing at the age of eighteen. Her first writings appeared in 1916 in the European press in Yiddish. In 1921 he began working as a correspondent for the American newspaper Forverts, and in 1927 his first novel, Shtol un Ayzn ("Of iron and steel"), saw the light. In 1934 she emigrated to the United States, where she published, among others, The Karnowsky family (1943; Cliff, 2015) and The Ashkenazi brothers (1936; Cliff, 2017).