The first story, "Fool's Paradise," begins "Somewhere, sometime, there lived a rich man whose name was Kadish." In this way Singer indicates that his stories are not confined to any particular time or place. On the other hand, as the name "Kadish" suggests, the people in these stories belong to the centuries-old Jewish folk culture that flourished in central Europe until the utter devastation caused by the Nazis in World War II.
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