Simple Gimpl
The Definitive Bilingual Edition
New York : Restless Books, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First Restless Books hardcover edition.
Description: xv, 79 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
"Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpl tam' was published in Yiddish in 1945, about a month before Nazi Surrender. A story of bullying and the potential for revenge, is the deathbed confession of an orphaned baker who is targeted by his community for ridicule and practical jokes. Gimpl has come to be seen as a symbol of the Jewish people in the diaspora, and minorities in general. Should they be passive in the face of aggression? Or should they defend themselves? What role must the individual of that minority play when the pack behaves badly?"--Front jacket flap.
Other Authors:
Bellow, Saul, translator.
Stromberg, David, 1980- translator.
Finck, Liana, illustrator.
Bellow, Saul, translator.
Stromberg, David, 1980- translator.
Finck, Liana, illustrator.
Contents:
Simple Gimpl / translated from the Yiddish by Isaac Bashevis Singer and David Stromberg -- Gimpel the fool / translated from the Yiddish by Saul Bellow -- Afterword / David Stromberg.
ISBN:
1632060388
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Singer | Main (Downtown) | Display - Second Level, Fiction | In |
First published in Yiddish in Idisher kempfer, 1945.
Text in English and Yiddish.
Text in English and Yiddish.