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My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection of Jewish Folk Tales
My Grandmother's Stories A Collection of Jewish Folk Tales Author:Adele Geras ?Like all good stories in the Yiddish tradition, the pleasure of Geras? collection comes as much from the telling as from what happens. These are stories within stories: the narrator remembers herself as a young child hearing them from her grandmother, as they cooked, hung up laundry, prepared for the Sabbath, or cleaned house for Passover. This... more » framing of the stories emphasizes their continuing pleasure across generations; and customs, idioms, traditions, even recipes that the Jews brought with them from Eastern Europe are an unobtrusive part of the telling.?