Adam Kirsch writes about the novelist Israel Joshua Singer, whose fame was later eclipsed by that of his younger brother (Isaac Bashevis Singer), but whose novels, including “Yoshe Kalb” and “The Brothers Ashkenazi,” were important works of realist fiction expounding socialist themes.
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