Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer, edited by Ilan Stavans Sale Books Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn

Though culturally Jewish

And a memorable Hanukkah tale of grandmothers competing in a doughnut duel

Many Jews quickly exited the shtetls

all of which have survived and are housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford

Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer, edited by Ilan Stavans Sale Books Roger KahnBeginning with Gimpel the Fool, the story that brought Isaac Bashevis Singer to prominence in America in the 1950s, this Library of America volume is the first of three gathering most of Singers short fiction. These stories were published in English in the versions he called his second originals, translations that he supervised and on which he himself often collaborated, revising his Yiddish texts as he worked. Born in 1904 into a family of rabbis,