Chelm is overal
Subtitle: en andere joodse verhalen
By: verz. en bew. door Gottfrid van Eck ; geïll. door Heleen Breedveld
Publisher: Christofoor
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Zeist
Language: dut
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9789062385959
Subjects: Jewish wit and humor; Jewish folk literature; Jews; Folklore
Description: These stories are a unique collection of over twenty-five Jewish fairy tales hardly known in Dutch. Chelm is a town where, according to Jewish storytelling tradition, is full of goofy schlemazzels - that is, fools and idiots, morons and the unlucky. Although life is hard for the inhabitants of Chelm, they are happy in their folly, and that makes them almost touchingly wise.
Notes: Met lit. opg.