Singer, Israel Joshua (1893-1944), was a Polish-born American journalist and novelist who wrote in Yiddish. He was born in Bilgoraj, Poland, the son of a Hasidic rabbi, and educated at a rabbinical school in Warsaw. After World War I (1914-1918), he worked as a journalist in the Ukrainian city of Kiev. He later returned to Warsaw, where he became a foreign correspondent for Der Forverts (The Forward), a New York-based daily newspaper in Yiddish. Singer moved permanently to the United States in 1934 and continued to write for this journal. He also carved out a successful career as a novelist with such works as The Sinner (1932), The Brothers Ashkenazi (1936), The River Breaks Up (1938), and East of Eden (1939). He was the older brother of the author Isaac Bashevis Singer.