Jewish Fairy Tales

kadath · Post by **kadath** » December 31st, 2017, 5:17 pm

Jewish fairy tales in my opinion are among the very best and very familiar popular personages from the Old Testament make appearances in some of them. Here are four collections for consideration:

Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables by Gertrude Landa
https://archive.org/details/jewishfairytales00land_0

The Jewish Fairy Book by Gerald Friedlander
https://archive.org/details/jewishfairybook00frie

Jewish Fairy Tales and Stories by Gerald Friedlander
https://archive.org/details/jewishfairytales00frie

Jewish Fairy Tales by Gerald Friedlander
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 1up;seq=11

Post by **philchenevert** » December 31st, 2017, 11:03 pm

Which of these sources would you recommend as the best to start with? I would love to open a group project for this.

kadath · Post by **kadath** » December 31st, 2017, 11:27 pm

My favorite out of those 5 would probably be Jewish Fairy Tales by Gerald Friedlander
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 1up;seq=11 but they are all great and worthy to be in the catalog. This one may be a good choice also though to start with because it's on project Gutenberg, Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26711/26 ... 6711-h.htm.

Post by **philchenevert** » December 31st, 2017, 11:49 pm

kadath wrote:My favorite out of those 5 would probably be Jewish Fairy Tales by Gerald Friedlander
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... 1up;seq=11 but they are all great and worthy to be in the catalog. This one may be a good choice also though to start with because it's on project Gutenberg, Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26711/26 ... 6711-h.htm.

Thanks. I will start with the Landa compilation since it is indeed in Gutenberg.

EDIT: would you like to be the DPL? I will be opening this project very soon!
EDIT 2 here is the link viewtopic.php?f=28&t=68663&p=1425396#p1425396 sign up for a story or two, eh?

adonis · Post by **adonis** » January 1st, 2018, 1:52 am

I just told the first story in the first collection to a friend over breakfast, about a guy called Adam who gets shipwrecked on an island called Life where he is king, but has to decide whether to enjoy his kingship for a year or prepare the island he is then going to - presumably called Death - for his eventual coming, making the land fertile and that. My friend wanted to know about the people on the island called Life, couldn't he find out about their lives and help them? Then another friend came downstairs and when I told her, she said, yeah, like the irrigation of lands formerly belonging to Palestine. Don't think that's what they were actually thinking of in the story. I said. Still, powerful stories. (Obviously.) Me, I'm otherwise booked in this Happy New Year. Merry Post-Yule(Be Sorry) to One and All!

Tony A.

Post by **philchenevert** » January 1st, 2018, 9:21 am

Tony. Why not record that story for the whole world?

adonis · Post by **adonis** » January 1st, 2018, 1:45 pm

The whole world isn't listening. I checked on my Librivox catalogue. I'm far more likely to do another version of the rather good translation of Metamorphosis that you recently did - I thought it might do well in a boxed set (I think of it, quite incorrectly, as a portmanteau version) including other pieces such as Andreyev's Lazarus under the umbrella title of The Nightmare: Life-in-Death. But I probably won't. Too much like hard work. And, frankly, I am looking at my worn-out old computer (as into a mirror darkly} and wondering how many more months (years?) it has to last - while my spanking new Kindle Fire is giving me all the books I could possibly want to read or listen to, some of which I have to say (dare I say it?) I can't record on Librivox. Also I like the storytelling aspect of getting direct feedback - Quaker: What about the ordinary people? Political: what about the lemon tree workers? Well, what about the lemon tree workers indeed. However, glad of your take and when I've done the Canterbury Tales I'll swing around and see if there are any of these collections left. I did enjoy what I felt was a genuine Hebraic spirit in the allegory (I remember the same tale coming over rather flat in an Idries Shah coffee table collection, just screw in legs and serve coffee). But maybe that just comes of people charging out of pubs crying There's a f--king rabbi in there! There wasn't. But I did have a trilby and a beard. And a black gabardine. Thanking you for your interest -

Sincerely,
Tony Addison.

Post by **philchenevert** » January 1st, 2018, 2:20 pm

Ha! what a wonderful response Tony. You are obviously a writer too, to have such a feel for text and story. As for the whole world not listening, that is obviously true, but it is also true that the whole world has the option to listen if they want which is a far cry from not having that optioni at all. I am not a writer but love good story telling so that frees me up to just enjoy telling stories - what a wonderful match with LibriVox, eh? I just cataloged a fabulous Conan the Barbarian novel and will be doing The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius next. It is great to have the freedom to read such stuff.

Do you really have a trilby and a beard? and wear black gabardine? cool. Soounds line you have some neat stories to tell yourself. Oh and let me know when you want to do the Canterbury Tales, I would love to MC.