Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition by Isaac Bashevis Singer textbook 'A word and an arrow

'A word and an arrow are the same -- both deliver with speedy aim

and satirical writings offer glimpses into how the practice of religion and growing secularization was changing immigrants' daily lives in the encounter with modernity

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” and from gentle humor in “Gimpel the Fool” to tragedy with “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy

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Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition by Isaac Bashevis Singer textbook 'A word and an arrowBilingual Yiddish and English edition Translated by Saul Bellow A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical storyone of the most influential of the 20th centuryabout a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. Singer's original Yiddish appears alongside his own partial translation, now completed and edited by