Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another

About this book

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. The life force animating these tales is almost tangible. The printed words seem to vibrate as if the author possessed the voices of various tellers and lent their lilting tones and ripe inflections to the printed page. Furthermore the laughter sobs and delighted cries of countless listeners also echo in these pages. Schram who has written a thoughtful informative introduction for each story demonstrates on every page her belief that the stories connect to our lives. And when the lifelike characters woven into Schrams magic tapestry suffer or enjoy the fates they most deserve we rejoice secure in their storybook world?a world where justice however incomprehensible is always done and where we attain happiness by living in accordance with Jewish law and in harmony with the worlds natural order. Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another abounds in a gentle wisdom that presses itself upon our complex and often self-contradictory lives infusing us with patience tolerance and hope. We identify with the kings and princes fools and beggars heroes and leaders villains and witches of yesteryear because though our lives are vastly different from theirs we share their moral choices and experience their dilemmas. Schram joins Jewish storytellers throughout the ages linking past to present and preserving an invaluable legacy for generations yet unborn.