Because God Loves Stories
Subtitle: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling
Publisher: Fireside
Published: April 2, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780684811758
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Folklore; Judaism; Religious Literature; Legends, Jewish; Oral And Folk Literature; United States; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Ethnic Studies - General; Folklore & Mythology - Storytelling; Judaism - General; Religion / Judaism / Beliefs, Practices, Rituals; Religion-Judaism - General; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - General; General; Short stories, Jewish; Jewish folk literature; Jews
First sentence: "It was family life," Marc Kaminsky's grandmother told him, "it was simkhes, joyous occasions, and not such simkhes, but it was always a tish mit menschen.