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Isaac Bashevis Singer (view source)
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"Gimpel the Fool" is Singer's most anthologized story. Gimpel is a believer in God who extends his willingness to believe to every aspect of his life. He is tempted to disbelieve the stories told to him, to deny his faith, and to enact revenge against those who humiliate him for his gullibility.
"Gimpel the Fool" is Singer's most anthologized story. Gimpel is a believer in God who extends his willingness to believe to every aspect of his life. He is tempted to disbelieve the stories told to him, to deny his faith, and to enact revenge against those who humiliate him for his gullibility.
Singer's work for adults deals often with sexual themes and is built on Jewish folklore, religion, and mysticism. He frequently deals with shtetl life in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe. Later works explore the loneliness of old age and the passing of Jewish traditions caused by assimilation into the wider world.
==Books for children==
==Books for children==