Yiddish Folktales by Beatrice Weinreich

Author:Beatrice Weinreich [Weinreich, Beatrice Silverman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82826-2
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

Nakhman the tailor liked to whip out a humorous anecdote or a tune in the vestibule of the besmedresh, the House of Study. Sometimes I’d stray away from my grandfather, who stayed put in his corner at the back of the besmedresh, near the old wall clock whose pendulum went back and forth, back and forth. I’d sneak out into the vestibule and join the group of shoemakers and tailors who surrounded Nakhman, and I’d listen to his jokes and proverbs and tales.

—Memoir from Pumpyan, Lithuania, the 1920s

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