Three hundred Jewish tales in this extraordinary volume span three
continents and four millennia. Culled from traditional sources-the
Bible, Talmud, Midrash, hasidic texts, and oral folklore-and retold
in modern English by Ellen Frankel, these stories represent the
brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore.
Beautifully clothed in contemporary language, these classic tales
sparkle with the gentle and insightful humor of the Jewish folk
imagination. And like so much of Jewish literature, these stories
abound in allusions to classic Jewish texts. Biblical cadences,
phrases from the prayer book, and ideas from Jewish proverbs and
heroic legends resonate in the air when these tales are read or
told aloud. In The Classic Tales, history sheds its dust to become
as intimate as family memory. While the breadth and depth of this
book make it completely unique, three special features also help
distinguish it: God appears without gender (though certainly not
without personality); women characters, so often nameless in the
original biblical text, wear their midrashic names (e.g., Noah's
wife Naamah, Abraham's mother Amitlai, Lot's wife Edith); and many
tales of Sephardic origin have been included to correct the common
American bias toward Eastern European sources. What's more, this
volume has been uniquely designed to be of use to educators,
rabbis, parents, and students. It features a chronological table of
contents as well as six separate indexes?arranged by Jewish
holidays, Torah and Haftorah readings, character types, symbols,
topics, and proper names and places-to make the tales easily
referenced in a wide variety of ways. Anyone who needs a story to
inspire a child, to illustrate a point, to develop a sermon, or
just to uplift his or her own thirsting soul will find just the
right one in The Classic Tales.
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