How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition by Ruth Von Bernuth

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition

Ruth Von Bernuth

336 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction classics literary religion reflective medium-paced
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How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distr...

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