How the Wise Men Got to Chelm

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
Author: Ruth von Bernuth
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1479828440
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1. How the Wise Men got to Gotham: the fools of Chelm take Manhattan -- 2. How foolish Is Jewish culture? fools, Jews, and the Carnivalesque Culture of early modernity -- 3. Through the land of foolish culture: from Laleburg to Schildburg -- 4. Gentile fools speaking Yiddish: the Schildbergerbuch for Jewish readers -- 5. The enlightenment goes East: how Democritus of Abdera got to Galicia -- 6. The geography of folly: the folklorists and the invention of Chelm -- 7. Chelm tales after World War One in German and Yiddish: "Our Schilda" and "Our Chelm Correspondent


How the Wise Men Got to Chelm
Language: en
Pages: 331

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm

Authors: Ruth von Bernuth
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-18 - Publisher: NYU Press

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1. How the Wise Men got to Gotham: the fools of Chelm take Manhattan -- 2. How foolish Is Jewish culture? fools, Jews, and the Carnivalesque Culture of early mo
The Wise Men of Chelm
Language: en
Pages: 60

The Wise Men of Chelm

Authors: Sandy Asher
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

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The Wise Folk of Chelm
Language: en
Pages: 174

The Wise Folk of Chelm

Authors: Seymour Rossel
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08 - Publisher:

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Welcome to CHELM A cornucopia of irrepressible characters awaits within The Wise Folk of Chelm to welcome you to Europe's most famous town of fools. All this, a
The Wise Men of Helm and Their Merry Tales
Language: en
Pages: 144

The Wise Men of Helm and Their Merry Tales

Authors: Solomon Simon
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: Behrman House, Inc

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The collection of Jewish folk tales that the "New York Times" called "a delightful little book . . . a classic of its kind . . . full of merriment and wisdom".
The Wise Men of Chelm and the Foolish Carp
Language: en
Pages:

The Wise Men of Chelm and the Foolish Carp

Authors: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-19 - Publisher:

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When Chelm community leader, Gronam Ox, is given a live carp in honour of his great wisdom, he is delighted. He knows, of course, that eating the brain of a car