Jewish stories one generation tells another

by Peninnah Schram

Paper Book, 1987

Status

Available

Call number

801 SCH

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, c1987.

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.

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In "The Dream and the Treasure," in the Polish city of Cracow, there lived Avrom son of Berl, a poor man with a large family. After dreaming three times of a treasure under the bridge in Prague, he travels there with his wife's blessing. The guard there laughs, explaining that if he believed in
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dreams he'd look under the stove of Avrom son of Isaac in Cracow, but since he's heard that half the Jews in Cracow are called Avrom and the other half are called Berl, he's staying where he is. Avrom uses some of the treasure to build a house of prayer, called "Reb Avrom's shul.
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Physical description

xxxv, 497 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0876689675 / 9780876689677

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