Yiddish Folktales by Weinreich, Beatrice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments A Note on the Illustrations Contents Introduction Part One: Naked Truth and Resplendent Parables: Allegorical Tales

1. Naked Truth and Resplendent Parable 2. A Bit of Herring, a Pinch of Salt, and a Morsel of Bread 3. Things Can Always Get Worse 4. The Luck That Snored 5. The Fever and the Flea 6. Why Dogs Chase Cats and Cats Chase Mice 7. Wisdom or Luck? 8. Pleasing All the World 9. Poverty Grows and Grows 10. The Sacrifice of Isaac and the Caretaker of Brisk 11. The Treasure at Home 12. A Fable of a Bird and Her Chicks 13. Letting In the Light 14. Bad Luck

Part Two: A Rooster and a Hen, Let the Story Begin: Children’s Tales

15. The Pain in the Neck: A Nonsense Tale 16. The Six-Pointed Homentash: A Purim Tale 17. A Tale of Two Brothers 18. Stones and Bones Rattle in My Belly 19. Sóre-Kháne at the Tip of the Church Tower 20. Little Bean 21. A Topsy-Turvy Tale 22. Clever Khashinke and Foolish Bashinke 23. The Granny Bear 24. Moyshele and Sheyndele 25. Next Time That’s What I’ll Say 26. The Naughty Little Girl

Part Three: Magic Rings, Feathers of Gold, Mountains of Glass: Wonder Tales

27. Hang the Moon on My Palace Roof 28. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 29. The Beggar King and the Melamed 30. Of Nettles and Roses 31. The Demon and Sosye 32. How Much Do You Love Me? 33. The Master Thief 34. The Orphan Boys 35. Two Brothers Who Went to the Devil 36. The Snake Bridegroom 37. The Princess and Vanke, the Shoemaker’s Son 38. The Foolish Youth and Elijah the Prophet 39. The King’s Lost Daughter 40. The Magic Fish and the Wishing Ring 41. The Hunchbacks and the Dancing Demons 42. The Princess of the Third Pumpkin 43. The Orphan Boy Who Won the Bride 44. Forty Hares and a Princess 45. The Merchant’s Son and the Demons 46. The Ram, the Basket, and the Stick 47. The Golden Feather

Part Four: Justice, Faith, and Everyday Morals: Pious Tales

48. The Tale of a Stingy Woman 49. The Wheat Poured In at the Door 50. In Heaven and Hell 51. The Miracle of the Tree 52. The Poor Man’s Ruble 53. Blood and Water 54. A Letter to God 55. The Seven Good Years 56. Set a Trap for Another 57. A Succos Tale 58. Only Eleven Little Fish 59. A Passover Tale 60. A Shocking Tale of a Viceroy 61. The Leper Boy and Elijah the Prophet 62. The Trustees 63. A Tragic Tale 64. Upon Me 65. The Ballad of the Faithful Wife 66. The Iron Chest 67. Water Wouldn’t Hurt 68. The Unlearned Villager 69. Holding On to One-Quarter of My World 70. The Poor Rabbi and His Three Daughters

Part Five: Nitwits, With, and Pranksters: Humorous Tales

71. The Clever Girl: A Riddle Tale 72. Then Where’s the Cat? 73. The Best for My Wife 74. The Coat of Patches 75. The Bishop and Moshke: Another Riddle Tale 76. Good Manners and Foolish Khushim 77. Khushim and His Bride 78. The Tale of a Leaf from the Tree of Knowledge 79. Reb Hershele and the Goose Leg 80. Hershele Ostropolyer and the Sabbath Caftan 81. Why Khelmites Are Fools 82. The Angel Spills the Jar of Fools 83. A Shoyfer in Khelm 84. The Hill Pushed Away 85. How Khelmites Lighted Up the Night 86. The Melamed’s Trunk 87. The Rolling Stone 88. A Cat in Khelm 89. Khelmites Who Refused to Tread on Snow 90. The Sundial 91. A Khelm Compromise 92. A Bridge in Khelm 93. Sowing Salt 94. Two Cows for a Melody 95. Froyim Greydinger, the Magic Stick, and the Pot of Soup 96. What Makes Tea Sweet: An Exercise in Logic 97. The Visitor from the World Beyond 98. The Ten Women 99. The Congregation Loves Jam 100. Motke Khabad Needs a Place to Live 101. Why the Head Turns Gray before the Beard 102. The Love Potion 103. Skotsl Kumt: Skotsl’s Here 104. The Clever Little Tailor 105. Two Tunes for Three Hundred Rubles 106. Some True Miracles of God

Part Six: Sages, Tsadikim, and Villains: Legends

107. Sabbath in Paradise 108. The Baal Shem Tov and the Herdsman 109. Yisroel, the Child Rebbe 110. The Disciple Who Went Astray 111. The Rebbe’s Melody 112. Don’t Go into the Mud in the First Place 113. The Missed Moment of Redemption 114. The Mekarev Rebbe Gets Even with a Stingy Woman 115. The Happy Pair and the Baal Shem Tov 116. The Fleet-Footed Tomeshef Rebbe 117. The Right Order Is Important 118. Reb Khaim Urbakh Rocks a Cradle on Yom Kippur 119. Rain and the Rebbe of Stolin 120. The Miracle of the Dry Well 121. The Reincarnation of Queen Esther 122. The Penitent and the Rebbe of Tshekhenove 123. The Boy Who Put Two Socks on One Foot 124. The Power of the Mourner’s Prayer 125. The Curious Disciple 126. A Common Piece of Earth 127. Reb Malkiel and the 702 Candles 128. A Modern Miracle 129. How Judah Halevi Entered Heaven Alive 130. Rabbi Joshua and the Emperor of Rome 131. A Wonderful Legend of a Cave 132. Waiting for the Messiah 133. The Torah of My Servant Moses 134. Rabbi Jonathan and the Minister: A Disputation 135. He Has Only One Weakness 136. The Rabbi Shows Respect for His Shoemaker 137. Evening the Score 138. Reb Leybele of Mir Goes to the Marketplace 139. Napoleon the First and the Jewish Officer 140. Napoleon in Vilna 141. Nafol tipol: Napoleon, You Will Fall 142. The Cantonist’s Mother and Nicholas the First 143. Czar Nicholas Decrees the Burning of the Talmud 144. Emperor Franz Josef and the Innkeeper’s Infant 145. The Poor Man and Rothschild 146. Rothschild’s Shoes 147. Rothschild’s End

Part Seven: Elves and Dibbuks, Ghosts and Golems: Supernatural Tales

148. The Shoemaker and the Shretelekh 149. The Synagogue, the Church, and the Town Hall 150. The Transmigrating Soul 151. Who’s Milking the Cows? 152. The Passover Elf Helps Great-Grandmother 153. The Old Shul in Motele 154. The Blacksmith and the Horses with Human Hands 155. The Mysterious Gold Chain 156. The Unquiet Grave 157. The Large Stone Synagogue of Berditshev 158. The Golem of Vilna 159. The Baal Shem Tov and the Gilgl 160. The Shretele That Took a Little Nip 161. The Lost Hat and the Pile of Gold 162. The Miracle of the Beer Keg 163. How Doves Saved a Synagogue from Fire 164. The Calf That Turned to Gold 165. A Cave That Leads to the Land of Israel 166. Late-Night Spooks 167. The Demon Sheep 168. The Dibbuk Melody of Tolne 169. The Missing Bridegroom 170. Two Hrubeshoyv Legends 171. Why the Rebbe’s Pipe Must Be Kept Lighted 172. Luckily, the Rooster Crowed Late 173. Neither Eat nor Drink What a Demon Offers 174. A Balshem Drives Out a Dibbuk 175. Lantekh, the Bridge Hobgoblin 176. The Demon and the Willow Twigs 177. The Sleepy Tailor and the Zmore 178. The Last Dibbuk

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