His first English language novel was The Family Moskat, which came out ten years before his poem The Magician of Lublin.  
One work by this man tells of a character named Bainish who sees the ghost of his daughter Rebecca and concludes, "one should always be joyous."  His assistant Devorah Telushkin wrote about him in Master of Dreams.  His first English language novel was The Family Moskat, which came out ten years before his poem The Magician of Lublin.  His short stories "The Little Shoemakers" and "From the Diary of One Not Born" appear in the collections A Friend of Kafka and The Death of Methuselah.  FTP name this Polish-born author of The Spinoza of Market Street and Enemies: A Love Story, perhaps best known for his tale of a fool named Gimpel.
One work by this man tells of a character named Bainish who sees the ghost of his daughter Rebecca and concludes, "one should always be joyous."  
Isaac Bashevis Singer