Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another (Revised)
Peninnah Schram
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Peninnah Schram, widely regarded as one of the great Jewish storytellers of our generation, has collected and retold sixty-four delightful Jewish folktales to create Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another. Ms. Schram, who believes that stories form "the link between the generations," helps forge that link with this book, ensuring that these stories will continue to live and breathe in the modern world.
Product Details
Price
$62.39
Publisher
Rlpg/Galleys
Publish Date
May 01, 1996
Pages
544
Dimensions
5.9 X 8.9 X 1.4 inches | 1.75 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781568219806
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About the Author
Peninnah Schram is a professional storyteller and recording artist, and currently serves as professor of speech and drama at Stern College of Yeshiva University, New York.
Reviews
Inspirational and distinctly moralistic in nature, these tales [deal] with a gentle kind of wisdom, one that imposes itself on complex and often self-contradictory lives. These are marvelous, well-told stories.
Jewish Stories is an anthology of 64 folk tales selected from Schram's extensive repertoire. They represent a variety of genres: fables and parables; midrashic elaborations on biblical characters or verses; hasidic stories; fairy tales transposed into a Jewish setting (a Jewish Cinderella story, for example); women's wisdom told over needlework or laundry; and riddles, proverbs, and jokes expanded into tales. Schram introduces each of the stories with an explanation of its origins-both where she first heard the story and its literary and folkloristic antecedents.
This collection of 64 folk tales, myths, and morality tales is a vivid medley of Jewish culture, customs, and history. . . . The work is both entertaining and scholarly.
Jewish Stories is an anthology of 64 folk tales selected from Schram's extensive repertoire. They represent a variety of genres: fables and parables; midrashic elaborations on biblical characters or verses; hasidic stories; fairy tales transposed into a Jewish setting (a Jewish Cinderella story, for example); women's wisdom told over needlework or laundry; and riddles, proverbs, and jokes expanded into tales. Schram introduces each of the stories with an explanation of its origins-both where she first heard the story and its literary and folkloristic antecedents.
This collection of 64 folk tales, myths, and morality tales is a vivid medley of Jewish culture, customs, and history. . . . The work is both entertaining and scholarly.
