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Unit 19 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格 About the Author 1、艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格（Isaac Bashevis Singer，1904-1991）：美国意第绪语作家，犹太人。1904年出生在波兰的莱昂辛，1943年加入美国国籍。 About the Author He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.[2] He also was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Childrens Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970)and one in Fiction for his collection, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974). Family Background His father was a Hasidic rabbi and his mother, Bathsheba, was the daughter of the rabbi of Bi?goraj.The street where Singer grew up was located in the impoverished, Yiddish-speaking Jewish quarter of Warsaw. There his father served as a rabbi, and was called on to be a judge, arbitrator, religious authority and spiritual leader in the Jewish community. The unique atmosphere of pre-war Krochmalna Street can be found both in the collection of Varshavsky-stories, which tell stories from Singers childhood, as well as in those novels and stories which take place in pre-war Warsaw. 2、辛格15岁开始文学创作。他曾先后两次获美国全国图书奖（其中一次是奖给他的儿童文学创作的），多次获得美国其他文学奖金。1978年，由于“他的充满激情的叙事艺术，这种艺术既扎根于波兰犹太人的文化传统，又反映了人类的普遍处境”，辛格获诺贝尔文学奖。至今，许多学者认为，中国文坛的诺贝尔效应，便是从“辛格热”开始的。 Literary career Singers first published story won the literary competition of the literarishe bletter and garnered him a reputation as a promising talent. A reflection of his formative years in the kitchen of literature can be found in many of his later works. IB Singer published his first novel, Satan in Goray, in installments in the literary magazine Globus, which he had co-founded with his life-long friend, the Yiddish poet Aaron Zeitlin in 1935. The book recounts events of 1648 in the village of Goraj (close to Bi?goraj), where the Jews of Poland lost a third of their population in a wholesale attack by Cossacks. It explores the effects of