My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folk Tales
by:
Anita Lobel (author)
Adèle Geras (author)
“Like all good stories in the Yiddish tradition, the pleasure of Geras’ collection comes as much from the telling as from what happens. These are stories within stories: the narrator remembers herself as a young child hearing them from her grandmother, as they cooked, hung up laundry, prepared...
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“Like all good stories in the Yiddish tradition, the pleasure of Geras’ collection comes as much from the telling as from what happens. These are stories within stories: the narrator remembers herself as a young child hearing them from her grandmother, as they cooked, hung up laundry, prepared for the Sabbath, or cleaned house for Passover. This framing of the stories emphasizes their continuing pleasure across generations; and customs, idioms, traditions, even recipes that the Jews brought with them from Eastern Europe are an unobtrusive part of the telling.”—Booklist, Starred
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
0375822852
Publish date: August 26th 2003
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
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