How the wise men got to Chelm : the life and times of a Yiddish folk tradition
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How the wise men got to Chelm : the life and times of a Yiddish folk tradition
New York University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-294) and index
Contents of Works
- 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"
