Stories within Stories

Stories within Stories

Stories Within Stories

Peninnah Schram

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Editorial:
RLPG/Galleys
Año de edición:
2000
Materia
Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9780765761422
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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. 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.

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