"Fools of Chelm and their History" a satire political book for teenagers went through its 2nd impression.

IBNA: The head of Aseman Khial publication, Maryam Bahrami told IBNA that "Fools of Chelm and their History" is a satire political book for teenagers authored by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The book was converted into Persian last year as it soon went through its 2nd print run.

The work was translated from German to Persian by Parvaneh Oroojnia and Uri Shulevitz illustrated it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American author noted for his short stories. He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978.

His Old Love and ‎Zlateh the goat have been converted into Persian as well.

Chelm is a Polish town famous as a town of fools. One story is that G-d sent his angels to populate the earth, each with a basket of wise souls and a basket of foolish souls which they were to distribute evenly. One angel was daydreaming, and hit a tree (or a mountain, depending on which story you're hearing), and spilled her basket of foolish souls all in one place -- Chelm. Many stories and jokes are told about the tortured logic of the Chelm-ites.

In Singer's story, the first "sage" of Chelm called a council meeting to solve the problem of poverty and famine. He decided to go to war with a neighboring village, for no reason than that the other village thought the Chelmites fools. (It doesn't work). The story goes on from there, as one foolish thing follows another. The lost war is followed by a revolt, followed by another revolt, and so on, and then the Women's Party takes over.

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