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.

[2][3] Kreitman was the daughter of Pinkjas Mendl Menachem Zynger[4] (Singer) and his wife Basheve (Bathsheba), née Zylberman.

[7] The daughter of the rabbi of Biłgoraj,[5] who was renowned in his day for his intellectual and spiritual character, she had benefited from an education comparable to that of her brothers.

Kreitman's first novel includes numerous scenes depicting the main female character's desires for education: scenes in which she waits with great anticipation for the bookseller to arrive in their town, dreams of becoming a scholar, and hides a Russian text-book from the male members of her family so that they won't find out she is studying in secret.

The outbreak of World War I forced the family to flee to London, where Kreitman lived for the rest of her life, except for two long return visits to Poland.

[2] Although she had been the first in the family to write, she published relatively late in life, her first novel Der Sheydims Tants (Dance of the Demons) appearing in Poland in 1936.

Forced evacuation of Jewish refugees to Central Asia under extremely harsh conditions was relatively common in the Soviet Union during World War II, and both are reported to have perished in 1946.

He also did not answer letters and failed to send money, although – then far from being the famous and well-to-do writer he would become in his old age – he was comparably secure and Kreitman and her family were in great need.

(Esther Kreitman suffered either from epilepsy or another physical or mental condition with similar symptoms, and was later in life diagnosed as paranoid.)

Since her death, her works, which she wrote "in support of the Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) from a female perspective,"[11] have been translated into French, German, Dutch and Spanish.