The stories presented in Peninnah Schram's highly anticipated
Stories within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition are drawn
primarily from talmudic and midrashic sources, medieval texts, and
the Israel Folktale Archives. Each enchanting story-within-a-story
is part of the Jewish oral tradition and continues to enlighten,
educate, and entertain audiences as have all of the author's
previous works. The types of stories found in this wonderful
collection (described by Peninnah Schram as "frame and chain
stories") have been widely popular in both Jewish and non-Jewish
literary traditions. Since Jews have lived in so many places, they
have been influenced by the stories told by their surrounding
neighbors. For example, this genre of tales has been especially
popular in the Jewish stories of the Middle East, having been
influenced by the structure and contents of Arabic literature.
Stories within Stories contains fifty stories, mostly made up of
folktales. Various types of stories are interspersed so that a
humorous story is followed by a romantic tale, which is followed by
a religious tale, which is followed by a tall tale, and so on. The
stories come from various ethnic communities represented in the
Israel Folktale Archives including Morocco, Iraq, Kurdistan,
Persia, Yemen, and Eastern Europe. Gifted and highly acclaimed
storyteller Peninnah Schram contributes to the ever-growing library
of Jewish folklore collections, thus actively helping to restore
the rich treasures of Jewish oral tradition in our contemporary
world.
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