<p>Scenes of Jewish Life in Alsace was first published in Paris in 1860, and now appears in an English translation by Rose Choron. author of Family Stories: Travels Beyond the Shtetel. It is illustrated by Alphonse Levy, a nineteenth-century Alsatian artist, known for his charming pictorial descriptions of Jewish life around him. The translator says: "The thought of presenting Scenes of Jewish Life in Alsace" in English occurred to me, after I read this delightful account of the Alsatian countryside, describing the life of Jewish people, their strange mixture of ancient rituals, ceremonies, superstitions, and festivals; their colorful customs, individualistic personalities: and their patois, the roots of which, going back to the thirteenth century, and earlier. are believed to have been the original source of what later became the Yiddish language."</p>

Scenes of Jewish Life in Alsace

History

Stauben, Daniel

World

Pangloss Pr

<p>VILLAGE TALES FROM 19TH-CENTURY FRANCEThe author of these charming stories grew up in a picturesque Yiddish-speaking village in 1830s France. His tales evoke the people and folkways of a rural Jewish world that was vanishing quickly.In these stories, you'll meet Salomon, Yedele and their loved ones. You'll share their joys, losses, courtships and holiday celebrations. You'll also meet traditional Alsatian storytellers who recount Yiddish folk tales of ghosts and sorcery, and of "wonder rabbis" who could banish demons and lift curses.This new English translation restores the Yiddishisms and Jewish wording that the author deleted in the 1850s when reworking the stories for a largely Gentile audience. This edition also adds illustrations by Alphonse Lévy, a 19th-century Alsatian Jewish artist whose drawings and etchings mesh perfectly with the tales.</p>

Scenes of Jewish Life in Alsace: Village Tales from 19th-Century France (Between Wanderings)

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