Ezra Schwartz’s beautiful animated drawings evoke the mythical Eastern European world – and eccentric Jewish logic – of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Gimpel the Fool. All his life the baker Gimpel accepted events without doubt because “Everything is possible.” He also ignored people’s ridicule and abuse, choosing to “let things pass.” This behavior has earned him […]

“Ezra Schwartz’s beautiful animated drawings evoke the mythical Eastern European world – and eccentric Jewish logic – of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Gimpel the Fool. All his life the baker Gimpel accepted events without doubt because “Everything is possible.” He also ignored people’s ridicule and abuse, choosing to “let things pass.” This behavior has earned him […]