In the United States, Singer went through a period of depression in which he published little fiction. In 1935, he was helped by his older brother – who had moved to New York and worked for the Jewish Daily Forward – to immigrate to America. In Warsaw, he met Runia (Rachel) Pontsch, and in 1929, she gave birth to a son, Israel Zamir, Singer's only child.īeginning in 1932, Singer's writing published his first "mature" works, including a short story titled "The Jew from Babylon" (1932) and a slim novel titled Satan in Goray (1933). Having earlier experimented with writing in Hebrew, he now began to write reviews and short stories only in Yiddish. He moved to Warsaw in 1923, removing his religious garb, and working as a proofreader for the Yiddish journal Literarishe Bleter, where his older brother, Israel Joshua Singer, worked as an editor. In 1917, two years after the German occupation of Warsaw in the First World War, Singer's mother took him and his younger brother to her hometown of Bilgoraj, an isolated Jewish shtetl where Singer witnessed how Polish Jews had lived before the modern age. – which became the setting for many of his stories and novels, including his autobiographical work In My Father's Court (1967). Born in 1903, in the Polish town of Leoncin, and residing briefly in a Hasidic court in Radzymin, Singer’s family eventually moved to Warsaw and lived on Krochmalna St.
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