Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelm

by Amy Schwartz

Hardcover, 1986

Status

Available

Call number

jFIC SCH

Genres

Collections

Children's, Children's - Stories and Folk Tales

Publication

Jewish Pubn Society (1986), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 32 pages

Description

Relates how Yossel Zissel, butcher of Chelm, goes to Warsaw to collect a fortune in gold inherited from his uncle and returns to Chelm empty-handed.

User reviews

LibraryThing member raizel
SPOILER: Yossel Zissel travels to collect his inheritance of gold, but converts it to feathers which he expects will be blown by the wind to his home in Chelm. The book ends with Zissel telling his townsmen that just as the feathers have scattered around the world it is time for the people of Chelm
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 to do the same and share their wisdom.

Similar stories about Chelmites setting loose feathers to make their trip home easier appear in other books, such as Steve Sanfield's The Feather Merchants.
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Subjects

Humorous stories

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

Language

English

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