Ashkenazi (1936) Friling (1937) East of Eden (originally titled Khaver Nachman) published by Alfred J. Knopf (1939) The Family Carnovsky (1969) (originally titled Di mishpokhe Karnovski) (1943) The River Breaks Up, stories published by Alfred Knopf (1938); republished by Vanguard Press, NY (1966) Dertseylungen (English: Stories); published posthumously, 1949 In the introduction to A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg stated that Singer's books are organized "in a way that satisfies the usual Western expectations as to literary structure. His novels resemble the kind of family chronicle popular in Europe several decades ago [that is, the turn of the century]". References Sources External links Obituary @ JTA Free version in Yiddish of Fun A Welt Wos Iz Nishto Mer 1893 births 1944 deaths American people of Polish-Jewish descent Jewish American writers Yiddish-language playwrights Yiddish-language journalists American male novelists Male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American Jews American Ashkenazi Jews Polish emigrants to the United States