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Translations and renditions of stories from the Midrash and the Talmud. Yosef Who Loved Shabbat. The Drunk and the Driver. The Merchants and the Scholar. The Woman Who Didn't Want to Get Divorced. Two Sages and a Single Basket of Fish. The Inspiring Story of Rabbi Avner, the Sinner. Where Rabbi Akiva Saw Joy.
3 giu 1999 · In 1995, Ruth Seymour and KCRW teamed up with the National Yiddish Book Center to create "Jewish Short Stories," a National Public Radio series read by actors such as Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum.
“As host of the National Public Radio series Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, I had the opportunity to rediscover the joys of Yiddish literature. Many of the translations that we used were taken from Schocken’s excellent Library of Yiddish Classics– a series that brings together a body of work that is very much alive and continues to dazzle us with its brilliance, wit ...
3.49. 39 ratings10 reviews. These stories, deeply rooted in Jewish life and consciousness, reflect authentic, often funny, images of Jewish people in the modern world. Many literary figures are featured including I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, Saul Bellow, Isaac Badel and Muriel Spark. Contents:
Jewish Languages. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help. Donate. Jewish literature in Europe can be divided into two broad categories: literature written in traditional Jewish languages, such as Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino, and literature written in the language of the country the writer happened to live in.
Chelm is an actual town in southeastern Poland, but in Jewish folklore it is an imaginary city inhabited by fools who imagine they are actually wise men. In a typical Chelm story, the people are presented with some difficulty and wind up settling on the dumbest solution imaginable. Tales of the wise men of Chelm have entertained Jewish readers ...
My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help. Donate. In 1880, in a Jewish population of approximately 250,000, only one out of six American Jews was of’ East European extraction; 40 years later, in a community which had reached four million, five out of six American Jews came from Eastern Europe.
