Y is for Yiddish

I’m doing folklore and book review posts to reach and please a larger audience. Previous years have shown select interest in both and to minimise blogging throughout the year, I’m focusing my efforts on April.

Focusing on an A to Z of my TBR (to be read) list, each letter will have books starting with that letter on my list, a book I’ve read and reviewed (with the review!) and one of my books matching the letter with a link about more info about the book.

If you’d rather check out my folklore post for today, go here.

My TBR

About the Book I’ve Read

Yiddish Folktales by Beatrice Silverman Weinreich

Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parables and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories about rebbes and their disciples; and tales whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them has disappeared, these enchanting Yiddish folktales continue to work their magic today.

Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Check it out on Goodreads.

My Review

I enjoyed reading this book cover-to-cover, though I’d advise others to treat it differently: reading one story at a time according to mood by selecting from the index. That’s how I’ll approach it in a re-reading, as I feel I can learn so much more if I focus on one story or section of the book.

I liked the tone, the humour, the wisdom, the supernatural and everyday – it’s an entertaining anthropological gem.

Highly recommended for folklore lovers.

My Book

Solstice Shenanigans (Faery Tales #7)

I hope you enjoyed this. For more books I’ve read and reviewed, check out either my Pinterest board about reviews or my Goodreads profile. Alternatively, you can check out my reviews on BookBub. Have you read any of the books? Loved or hated any of them?

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*FYI, my reviews are my honest opinion and if something bothers me, I tell it straight. How else will anything change? My opinions are based on being a voracious reader and book buyer, not an attack on the author.*