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Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (31 March 1891 – 13 June 1954), known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. She was born in Biłgoraj, Vistula Land to a rabbinic Jewish family.
Esther Kreitman was the only female writer in one of the most prominent families in Yiddish literature. Born in Poland in 1891, Kreitman learned several languages and became interested in world literature despite her parents’ refusal to provide her with a formal education.
Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman’s novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In death,...
Nov 2, 2023 · Esther Singer Kreitman (1891–1954) was called many things in her lifetime: unattractive, household drudge, hysteric, epileptic, madwoman, controlling mother, a woman possessed by a dybbuk. These were the words—or epithets—her family used.
Esther Singer Kreitman (1891-1954) was the sister of two successful Yiddish writers, Israel Joshua Singer and the Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Like Woolf’s Judith, Kreitman was denied the education of her brothers and never attained their level of literary prestige.
Apr 4, 1991 · The scraps of paper that fluttered over the countryside that day were the first writings of Hinde Esther Singer Kreitman, the sister of the Yiddish novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Jun 26, 2023 · In 1954, Esther Kreitman died in her London apartment at the age of 63. According to her wishes and contrary to Jewish law, she was cremated. She explained that demons had been pursuing her all her life, and she didn’t want them give them an opportunity to continue tormenting her in her grave.
