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Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1957
A collection of short stories by the Yiddish-American author, featuring the title story of a naive but good-hearted man in a Polish Jewish town who is repeatedly deceived by his neighbors, told in Singer's characteristic blend of folk wisdom, dark humor, and moral reflection.
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Credulity, suffering, and faith intertwine in a Yiddish world where fools outlast the clever and the dead refuse silence.
faith-and-doubt
I am Gimpel the Fool. I don't think myself a fool. On the contrary. But that's what folks call me.
GFOS-RC-002Go on, with your loose talk. The truth is out, like the oil upon the water. Maimonides says it's right, and therefore it is right!
GFOS-RC-014You don't fear the tortures of hell? I fear nothing—not even God. There is no God.
GFOS-RC-035grief
For forty years, like a pair of pigeons, we had lived together. Suddenly she lay down and died. With my own hands I buried her.
GFOS-RC-062Each grave I dug, each corpse I cleansed, worried me. I kept thinking of that girl—of her sitting up and whispering, 'Water, water!'
GFOS-RC-067work-as-meaning
His awl and last should be laid on the black cloth over his coffin, in sign of the fact that he was a man of peaceful industry who never cheated his customers.
GFOS-RC-081Illuminates
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