Honey on the Page : : A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature / / ed. by Miriam Udel.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alkvit, B.,; Asch, Sholem,; Bastomski, Solomon,; Elbe, Leon,; Fichmann, Yaakov,; Geltman, Simkhe,; Gutyanski, Benjamin,; Ignatov, David,; Kipnis, Levin,; Kulbak, Moyshe,; Kvitko, Leyb,; Liebert, Sarah L.,; Maze, Ida,; Metzker, Isaac,; Molodowsky, Kadya,; Oyerbakh, B.,; Pat, Yankev,; Paver, Khaver,; Rabinowitz, Zina,; Reisfeder, Jacob,; Rodin, David,; Shabad, Rokhl,; Shifris, Moyshe,; Shteynbarg, Eliezer,; Shtuker-Payuk, Mashe,; Simon, Solomon,; Spektor, Mordkhe,; Steinberg, Judah,; Szechet, Malka,; Tkatch, Meyer Ziml,; Tunkeler, Der,; Zipes, Jack,
• HerausgeberIn: Udel, Miriam,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 81 b/w illustrations

Winner, 2021 Reference & Bibliography Award in the 'Reference' Section, given by the Association of Jewish LibrariesAn unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children’s stories and poems enhanced with original illustrationsWhile there has been a recent boom in Jewish literacy and learning w...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword: Reviving Yiddish Children’s Literature
• Translator’s Note on Authors’ Names
• To the Young Reader
• Introduction
• Part I. Jewish Holidays
• A Sabbath in the Forest
• The Magic Lion
• The Mute Princess
• Children of the Field
• What Izzy Knows about Lag Ba’Omer
• A Village Saint
• Señor Ferrara’s First Yom Kippur
• Kids
• Part II. Jewish History and Heroes
• Gur Aryeh
• Don Isaac Abravanel
• The Story of a Stick
• Part III. Folktales, Fairy Tales, Wonder Tales
• Where Stories Come From
• The Magnate of Jerusalem
• The King and the Rabbi
• The Baker and the Beggar
• A Boy and His Samovar
• Roses and Emeralds
• The Red Giant
• Part IV. Wise Fools
• The Jews of Chelm and the Great Stone
• Lemekh Goes Ice Skating
• A Snow Grandma
• Zelig the Rhymester
• From The Three Braggarts
• A Deal’s a Deal
• Part V. Allegories, Parables, and Fables
• The Wind That Got Angry
• The Horse and the Monkeys
• A Nanny Goat with Seven Kids
• Stories from Genesis Stories from Genesis: How the Birds Learned Bible Stories
• The Birds Go on Strike
• The Bat
• Part VI. School Days
• The Alphabet Gets Angry
• The Teacher
• A Story of a Schoolboy and a Goat
• The Chickens Who Wanted to Learn Yiddish
• Part VII. In Life’s Classroom
• Questions
• Boots and the Bath Squad
• The Girl in the Mailbox
• ???
• Moe and Nicky
• Roosteroo
• Part VIII. Jewish Families, Here and There
• From Labzik: Stories of a Clever Pup
• Labzik and Glikl
• Evie Gets Lost
• Mirele’s Birthday
• From An Unusual Girl from Brooklyn
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Original Sources
• About the Editor and Translator