How the wise men got to Chelm
the life and times of a Yiddish folk tradition
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Word Count
79,250 words, Guess
Page Count
317 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27220760M
- ISBN-101479828440
- ISBN-139781479828449
- Library of Congress Control Number2016018942
- OCLC Control Number947190969
and 1 more
- Better World Books9781479828449
Classifications
- DDC398.209438/43
- LCCGR98 .B47 2016
- LCCGR98.B47 2016
Description
"How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. By placing literary Chelm and its 'foolish' antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day"--From publisher description.
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