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,...

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'...

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...

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...

Without feathers: Reading young Jewish American writers through a radical forebear COLLECTED STORIES (3 VOLUMES) GIMPEL THE FOOL TO THE LETTER WRITER;, A FRIEND OF KAFKA TO PASSIONS; ONE NIGHT IN BRAZIL TO THE DEATH OF METHUSELAH By Isaac Bashevis Singer Library of...

In the following essay, Norich examines Saul Bellow's 1953 translation of “Gimpel the Fool,” addressing issues of translation and the preservation of Yiddish.

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.”

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.”