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Isaac Bashevis Singer: FOOL’S PARADISE ABOUT WRITER: I.B. Singer was a Polish-born, Yiddish writer, but lived in the United States since 1935 till his death. A journalist and writer, Singer writes in Yiddish, originally the language of Eastern European Jewish communities. His well-known novels such as The family Moscat (1950), The Slave (1963), as well as his collections of short stories such as Gimpel the Fool (1957) and A Friend of Kafka (1970) have all been translated into English. Singer wrote mostly about the lives of Polish Jews in different periods of history. His colorful, realistic stories are based on the folklore tradition of the Slav-Yiddish narrative prose. Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Lite