I will sing you a verse--

Hyam singer was a devout Jewish cantor, teacher, philosopher, and poet. He was born in 1854 in Kovno, Lithuania, and moved to Riga, Latvia as a young man. In 1888 he and his wife and children immigrated to Dublin, Ireland, and in 1901 again moved his family to Chicago. During the 1880's and possibly the 1890's, he maintained a personal journal, the transliteration and translation of which is recorded here. Writing in poetic Yiddish and Hebrew, using Hebrew script, he recorded his feelings and his opinions on everything from the fate of Judaism to what makes a good marriage. This book includes genealogical information and photographs of the family.