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A Treasury of American Jewish Stories
Arranged thematically—from school days to the holidays—the book takes readers from Jewish holidays and history to folktales and fables, from stories of humanistic ethics to multi-generational family sagas.
Here is the folklore that belongs to us all - here is all that makes us American.
Italian-American folklore includes the traditions and customs of those immigrating to the United States from Italy, along with persons of Italian descent born in the United States. Italians have been in America ever since the arrival of ...
These are not stories of purported miracles. Nor are they always verifiable. Some of the stories are folktales, others are exaggerations. Some are biographical, others are snapshots from history.
In fact, the whole saga of Jewish history involved a struggle to maintain the Jewish people and its ethical teachings in ... A Treasury of Jewish Folklore, A Treasury of American Jewish Stories, and A Modern Treasury of Jewish Thought.
the puzzled bystander asked . “ That's why ! ” the poor man replied . 10 A Glass of Tea Two Jews sat together over a glass of tea . After a time of silence , the first mused : " Life is like a glass of tea with sugar .
She had continued her Jewish studies beyond the pre-teen Talmud Torah classes and had graduated from Marshalia Hebrew ... A Treasury of Jewish Folklore, A Treasury of American Jewish Stories, and A Modern Treasury of Jewish Thought.
Idel, Kabbalah, 96–128, 416 (index); Rohrbacher-Sticker, “From Sense to Nonsense”; Sperber, Magic and Folklore in Rabbinic Literature, 80–91; Trachtenberg, op. cit., 78–103; and Urbach, The Sages, 124–134. 13.
A grandfather introduces his grandson to the Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, a centuries-old concept which proposes that everyone must do their part in order to improve the world.