Review: Maybe it's because I'm not Jewish
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2012
You should read these, but be prepared.  Really WANT to read them.I've read Sholem Aleichem, I've read Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Jewish storytelling fascinates me, in a way, and that's odd, especially since I'm basically Lutheran.These stories may be the height of Yiddish culture; if so, it's my fault for not being able to relate more.  Some people, deeper than me --- and I'm sure there are many who are --- will probably find these to be wonderfully full of color and meaning and the whole philosophy, the ethos (?) of their traditions and being.Me, I found them to be wonderful in many ways.  Very descriptive, very colorful, very exotic, I would even say.  Therein, however, also lay the problem for me.  After a while, you think, my gosh, are they EVER going to get to the story?Maybe it loses something in the translation, or maybe I am too shallow.Still, I will keep reading these kinds of things, but in small doses until I get smarter.