The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm more books like this

by Eric A Kimmel, Mordicai Gerstein (Illustrator)

Drawing on traditional Jewish folklore, these Hanukkah stories relate the antics of the people of Chelm, thought--perhaps incorrectly--to be a town of fools.

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The Demons' Mistake: A Story from Chelm more books like this

by Francine Prose, Mark H Podwal (Illustrator)

Demons from the town of Chelm hide in a crate being shipped to New York because they hope to practice their mischief where streets are paved with gold and there are parties every day.

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Strudel, Strudel, Strudel more books like this

by Steve Sanfield, Emily Lisker (Illustrator)

Explains why teachers living in Chelm may not live on the top of a hill, own a trunk with wheels, nor eat apple strudel.

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The Brothers Schlemiel more books like this

by Mark Binder, Zevi Blum (Illustrator)

Like many Jewish humorists before him, Mark Binder takes us to the town of Chelm, Poland and introduces us to more of its delightful fools and their silly predicaments. But unlike most of his predecessors, Binder gives us a novel with three-dimensional characters and a complex plot with many twists and turns. The book follows the lives of ...

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The union of Lublin Polish federalism in the golden age more books like this

by Harry E. Dembkowski

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Himmler's Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank more books like this

by Jacob Frank, Mark Lewis

The only survivor of his sixty-four-member family, Frank provides the only firsthand account in English of Lublin and the destruction of its Jewish quarter. Amid the horrors and everyday minutia of life under the Nazis, he reflects on the role of faith, the will to live, and the temptation of suicide. Frank also examines survivor guilt, Jewish ...

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When Paupers Dance more books like this

by Slozma Renglich, Zigmund Jampel (Translator)

Set in the poorest Jewish ghettos of Lublin and Warsaw from 1912 to 1928, this is the story of lives scarred by desperate poverty yet abundantly rich in the wisdom of survival, as well as in love, courage, and humour.

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Chanukah in Chelm more books like this

by David A Adler, Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator)

The people who live in the town of Chelm are kind and good but not very smart. For example, when Mendel needs a table to hold his Chanukah menorah, a simple trip to his storage closet becomes a bungled adventure. Color illustrations accompany the text.

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We lived in a grave more books like this

by Helen Kotlar

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A Blaze in the Darkening Gloom: The Life of Rav Meir Shapiro of Blessed Memory more books like this

by Yehoshu'a Boimel

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They Were Few more books like this

by Alexander Bronowski

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Lublin; [zarys geograficzno-gospodarczy. more books like this

by Tadeusz Szczepanik

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Zaporczycy : 1943-1949 more books like this

by Ewa Kurek

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Represje Wobec Uczestnikow Wydarzen W Katedrze Lubelskiej W 1949 Roku more books like this

by Jan Zioek

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The District Museum in Lublin more books like this

by Muzeum Okregowe w Lublinie, K. Basistowa

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Lubliner Jiddisch : ein Beitrag zur Sprache und Kultur des Ostjiddischen im 20. Jahrhundert anhand eines Idiolekts more books like this

by Mogens Dyhr, Ingeborg Zint

On the basis of a phonological analysis of a tape recording in Eastern Yiddish made by a speaker from Lublin, the authors begin by establishing the contrasts to standard German. They go on to discuss the problems posed by the analysis of an idiolect, ranging from the question of specifically idiolectal realisation to the production of a 'normative ...

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