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Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool': The Jewish Don Quixote

The story of Gimpel, published after WWII, constitutes the repudiation of Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein’s understandable response to the Holocaust.

 Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1969. He died in 1991 at the age of 87. (Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel)
Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1969. He died in 1991 at the age of 87. (Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel)
(photo credit: IPPA)
ByPAUL SOCKEN
DECEMBER 31, 2022 10:24
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