Rambles in Storyland

Title

en_US Rambles in Storyland

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Second edition

en_US By S.M. Lehrman

Creator

en_US Lehrman, S.M. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Goodman, Yehuda

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:53Z

en_US 2002-10

en_US 1947

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1947

Abstract

en_US Here are twenty numbered tales, with a T of C at the front, in a slim volume of 143 pages.. There are five full-page black-and-white illustrations scattered along the way. The middle section of three is headed Fables and Legends, but fable is used loosely here. The stories are uplifting Jewish legends. I am surprised by a story I had never heard before: The Jewish Boy Who Became Pope (49). For me the best of the stories is The People That Will Not Die (71). Under a cruel king, Jews were often condemned to death, but faced one possible reprieve. Two slips of paper were put into a box, with LIFE on one and DEATH on the other. An enemy of a particular unjustly condemned Jew bribed the administrator of the box to put in two DEATH slips. (The administrator then went to the Jew, hoping for an even bigger bribe. The Jew tried to get him the bigger bribe, but this line of the story seems then to be forgotten.) At the execution, the pious Jew prayed, but then taking a slip from the box and not looking at it, he ate it. Then he challenged the king to have a guard examine the remaining slip. If it said LIFE, then his first slip had been a slip for death. But if it said DEATH, then his was a slip for life. Clever fellow!

Identifier

en_US 5093 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80681

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Shapiro Vallentine & Company,

en_US London

Subject

en_US BM530.L34 1947 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole