Because God Loves Stories An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling

Name: Because God Loves Stories An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling
Price: 3.51 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780684811758

ISBN-10: 0684811758

ISBN-13: 9780684811758

Edition: 1997

Authors: Steve Zeitlin

List price: $20.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.51

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

An exciting new treasury of Jewish stories and storytellers, from ancient tales and classics re-imagined to contemporary family stories, parables, and humor "Why were human beings created?" goes a traditional Jewish saying. "Because God loves stories." Storytelling has been part of Jewish religion and custom from earliest times and it remains a defining aspect of Jewish life. In Because God Loves Stories, folklorist Steve Zeitlin assembles the work of thirty-six Jewish storytellers, each of whom spins tales that express his or her own distinctive visions of Jewish culture. Contemporary storytellers re-interpret stories from the Talmud for modern sensibilities, the Grand Rabbi of Bluzhov…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 4/2/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Steve Zeitlin received his Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director and co-founder of City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk Culture and a regular commentator for National Public Radio. Zeitlin is the co-author of several books, including A Celebration of American Family Folklore. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.



Table of Contents


Introduction



Ancient Times In Contemporary Tales


Nina Jaffe


The Most Precious Thing


Syd Lieberman


Challahs in the Ark


Elijah and the Poor Man's Wish


Merit of the Sabbath


Joseph Elias


The Sound of Work


The Talking Mule


Rabbi Edward Schecter


Isaac's Bar Mitzvah



The Shtetl



The Shtetl in Folktale


Eve Penner Ilsen


A Tale of Reb Nakhum Chernobler and a Tikkun


Rabbi Edward Schecter


The Teller of Tales


Levi Yitchak Burns the Evidence


Syd Lieberman, Steve Sanfield


The Founding Fathers


A Chelm Medley


Michael Wex


The Kugel


Corey Fischer


The Golem Haunts the Cemetery in Prague



The Shtetl in Family Stories


Rita Fecher


The Day My Great-Grandmother Died


Peninnah Schram


The Czar's Army


The Czarina's Dress


Henry Sapoznik


Tants! Tants! Yiddish Music in the Old Country


Matilda Friedman


Think for Yourself


Marc Kaminsky


My Grandmother's Family Tales



THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE


Roslyn Bresnick-Perry


Leaving for America


A Real American Girl


My First Thanksgiving


Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett


From Immigrant to Ethnic in a Family's Tales


Ruth Rubin


Grandmother Elke: Next Year in Jerusalem


Rosa Kuinova


The Refusenik



The Lower East Side And Beyond



Tenement Life


Sam Levenson


The Tax Man in the Tailor Shop


Crucifixion


Gus Tyler


"The Strike of the Schnorrers" Revisited


Jack Tepper


Pazamentry


Shirlee Kresh Hecker


Papa's SukkahIke the Pike


Hank Halio


A Jew Who Don't Speak Yiddish:Ashkenazi/Sephardic Cultural Differences



The American South


Solomon Blatt


What Mr. Blatt Can't Eat



The Catskills


Joey Adams


The Kokhaleyn


The Tumler



Yiddish Theater


Baruch Lumet


Plotting to Kill Harry


Zypora Spaisman


The Lonesome Ship



Jewish Summer Camps


Rabbi David Holtz


Water and Wine



THE HOLOCAUST



Folk and Hasidic Tales


Rabbi Israel Spira Yaffa Eliach


Even the Transgressors in Israel


Circumcision


Hovering above the Pit


Nina Jaffe Steve Zeitlin


In Your Hands


Sam Levenson


The Wand



Bitter Memories


Melvin Katz


Only the Small Survive


Typhus


Pretending to Work


The Cigarette


New Barracks


Liberation


A Bowl of Soup


Lisa Lipkin


What My Mother Never Told Me:Reminiscences of a Child of a Holocaust Survivor


Barbara Myerhoff


The Shoebox


Roslyn Bresnick-Perry


Going Home to Nowhere



Humor In Contemporary Jewish Life


Moshe Waldoks


The Health Club


Steve Zeitlin


Jewish Laughter, God's Sense of Humor


VII


Shelley Brenner


Ezekiel's Wheel


Steve Zeitlin


A Penchant for Parable


Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard


The Healing Power of Jewish Stories


Source Notes