"Gimpel the Fool" is a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It was first published in English in 1953 and was translated from Yiddish by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Saul Bellow. Largely considered Singer's masterpiece, and the story that solidified him as a significant contributor to 20th-century American and Yiddish literature, the story follows Red Gimpel, a gullible yet endearing Jewish man who tries to live honorably and please God. The story was later published in a collection of the same name in 1957.
Singer received two National Book Awards, one in fiction for Crown of Feathers, a story collection, and another in children's literature for A Day of Pleasure, a memoir of...
