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Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, ... This work collects ethical tales based on Hebrew and rabbinic sources, ...
Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism. Folktales are characterized by the presence of unusual personages, by the sudden transformation of men into beasts and vice versa, or by other unnatural incidents.
Hillel Bakis, (in French) Jewish tales and stories from North Africa, Vol. 1- The thread of time. Traditions and everyday life , Ed. A.J. Presse, 2000, 288 p., 2000 ; (in French) Jewish tales and stories from North Africa, Vol. 2- The paths of Heaven.
Sippurei Ma'asiyot (Tales of Rabbi Nachman or Rabbi Nachman's Stories) (n.p., 1816)—13 story tales in Yiddish and then translated in to Hebrew and that are filled with deep mystical secrets. The longest of these tales is The Seven Beggars, [33] which contains many kabbalistic themes and hidden
Two of his stories appeared in Helena Frank's 1912 Yiddish Tales. [3] In 1900, Zevin joined the editorial board of [2] Yidishes Tageblat. He won recognition for his humorous tales about the typical Jewish immigrant's adventures in America.
A Yiddish and Slavic folktale is the Clay Boy, which combines elements of the golem and The Gingerbread Man, in which a lonely couple makes a child out of clay, with disastrous or comical consequences. [43] In one common Russian version, an older couple, whose children have left home, make a boy out of clay and dry him by their hearth.
Chelmers plotting to capture the Moon in a barrel. The Wise Men of Chelm (Yiddish: די כעלמער חכמים, romanized: Di Khelemer khakhomim) are foolish Jewish residents of the Polish city of Chełm, a butt of Jewish humor, similar to other towns of fools: the English Wise Men of Gotham, German Schildbürger, Greek residents of Abdera, or Finnish residents of the fictional town of Hymylä.
Peretz wrote in both Hebrew and Yiddish.A writer of social criticism, sympathetic to the labor movement, Peretz wrote stories, folk tales and plays.Liptzin characterizes him as both a realist – "an optimist who believed in the inevitability of progress through enlightenment" – and a romanticist, who "delved into irrational layers of the soul and sought to set imaginations astir with ...