How the Wise Men Got to Chelm : : The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition / / Ruth von Bernuth.
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world-one fool per town...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Orthography and Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. How the Wise Men Got to Gotham
- 2. How Foolish Is Jewish Culture?
- 3. Through the Land of Foolish Culture
- 4. Gentile Fools Speaking Yiddish
- 5. The Enlightenment Goes East
- 6. The Geography of Folly
- 7. Chelm Tales after World War One in German and Yiddish
- Epilogue.
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author