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The Jewish Oral Tradition: Jews as a Storytelling People
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Peninnah Schram |
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8/11/2008 Monday 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
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Waterman, Grace Coolidge
[Subject to change. Check the daily Cajepage.]
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Historically, folktales paint a portrait of the Jewish people. As a storytelling people, Jews traditionally have understood the importance of story. Often without a place to call home, our landscape was the human heart with the particular humor, wisdom, and trail of tears of the community of Jews. In this workshop, Peninnah Schram will examine the historical range of the Jewish oral tradition with its many-splendored genres, what forms a specifically Jewish tale, and how these stories become our legacies. She will also illustrate her presentation with a wide variety of stories from Biblical, Talmudic, Midrashic, Hasidic, Ashkenazi, and Sephardi sources.
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