Fiction. Translated from the Yiddish by Maurice Carr. THE DANCE OF THE DEMONS is a major literary rediscovery. In her daring autobiographical novel, originally published in Yiddish as Der Sheydim Tanz in 1936, Kreitman vividly and lovingly depicts the world of Polish shtetls and Jewish Warsaw that many have come to know through the books of her famous literary brothers, Israel Joshua and Nobel-Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. Replete with rabbis, yeshiva students, beggars, farmers, gangsters, seamstresses, and socialists, this world looks radically different through the eyes of a sister, who was I. B. Singer's inspiration for the story "Yentl". "I do not know of a single woman in Yiddish literature who wrote better than she did"--Isaac Bashevis Singer. "[Kreitman] clearly has the same deep, haunting literary storyteller's gifts as her siblings"--Lilith.

Author Hometown: London ENG



About the author: Esther Singer Kreitman (1891-1954) was born in Bilgoray, Poland, and is the sister of renowned Yiddish writers Israel Joshua and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Raised in Warsaw, Kreitman and her family fled to London at the start of World War I. She is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories.

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