Honey on the Page : : A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature / / ed. by Miriam Udel.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 81 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: Reviving Yiddish Children’s Literature
- Translator’s Note on Authors’ Names
- Translator’s Note on Authors’ Names
- 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: 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
- The Sick Chicken
- Mirele’s Birthday
- From An Unusual Girl from Brooklyn
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Original sources
- About the Editor and Translator