Books with title YIDDISH FOLKTALES

Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parables and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; poignant encounters between rabbis and their disciples; and stories whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them tragically disappeared, these enchanting Yiddish folktales continue to work their magic today.With black-and-white illustrations throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parable and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories about rebbes and their disciples; and tales whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them has disappeared, these enchanting Yiddish folktales continue to work their magic today.

"The drive to pass down stories from generation to generation is a trait that cultures across the world have in common. Some of these fascinating stories are called folktales, and many are still beloved hundreds of years after they were first told. Readers will learn the characteristics that folktales across cultures share. They'll discover that fables, fairy tales, and tall tales all fall within this category, and they'll learn famous examples of each--such as the Tortoise and the Hare, Paul Bunyan, and Cinderella --accompanied by appealing artwork"--

This volume presents a selection from the wealth of Yiddish folk-tales and legends told in the Yiddish-speaking world of Eastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many of their tales in present versions have never been printed before in any language and most of them appear here in English for the first time. Together they offer us a privileged entry into a vibrant and vital community. The Jews of Eastern Europe some 7 million people by the 1937's, lived throughout a vast territory, from Poland in the west to Russia in the east, from Latvia in the north to Rumania in the south.from villages of few to hundreds of thousands in the cities. united by their mother tongue Yiddish, A ramic, and Hebrew. The tales in this volume are drawn largely from efforts of folklorists and amateur collectors who wrote down thousands of legends, fables, jokes, and stories, these stories embody a far older heritage of Jewish narrative art. A tale recorded in 1926 in Poland is a variant of a book published in 1707 in Yiddish found in an even earlier version in 1521.Other tales were traced back to Babylonia and Judea by sages of the Talmud, some fifteen hundred years ago.

"The drive to pass down stories from generation to generation is a trait that cultures across the world have in common. Some of these fascinating stories are called folktales, and many are still beloved hundreds of years after they were first told. Readers will learn the characteristics that folktales across cultures share. They'll discover that fables, fairy tales, and tall tales all fall within this category, and they'll learn famous examples of each--such as the Tortoise and the Hare, Paul Bunyan, and Cinderella --accompanied by appealing artwork"--