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| Name: |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | | Birth Date: |
July 14, 1904 | | Death Date: |
July 24, 1991 | | Place of Birth: |
Radzymin, Poland | | Place of Death: |
Miami, Florida | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
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 Biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer
599 words, approx. 2 pages
 Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Polish-American author, was admired for his re-creation of the forgotten world of provincial 19th-century Poland and his depiction of a timeless Jewish ghetto existence. Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 14, 1904,... summary from source:
 Biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer
12310 words, approx. 41 pages
 Isaac Bashevis Singer, the only Yiddish writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, was among the most popular and widely read authors of the twentieth century. By the time of his death at the age of eighty-seven, Singer had received a lion'... summary from source:
Biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer
12186 words, approx. 40.6 pages
Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, first began to write for children in 1966. Three of his first four books were Newbery Honor Books; his fifth, A Day of Pleasure, was the winner of the National Book Award in 1970. H...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Gimpel the Fool Information
317 words, approx. 1 pages
Gimpel the Fool (1956) is a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It tells the story of Gimpel, the simple bread maker who is the butt of many of his town's jokes. It also gives it's name to the collection first published in...
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 Fanfare Gimpel the Fool
11/01/2007: 570 words, approx. 2 pages SCHIFF Gimpel the Fool * Kenneth Kiesler, cond; Richard Zeller (Gimpel); D'Anna Fortunato (Elka); Kevin Walsh (Badkhen); Thomas Glenn (Rabbi); et al.; Third Angle Ens * NAXOS 8.669010 (2 CDs: 99:01) David Schiff's opera had a long gestation, starting as a libretto he... summary from source:
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Anita Norich
5,444 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Norich examines Saul Bellow's 1953 translation of “Gimpel the Fool,” addressing issues of translation and the preservation of Yiddish.
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Critical Essay by Paul N. Siegel
4,896 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Siegel examines the ways in which Singer utilizes the archetypal figure of the wise fool in “Gimpel the Fool,” and calls the story “a masterpiece of irony.”
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Critical Essay by Nancy Tenfelde Clasby
4,788 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Clasby considers the connection between the archetypal images of the scapegoat and the trickster or fool and traces Gimpel's journey to wisdom in “Gimpel the Fool.”
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