Leaves from the Garden of Eden: One Hundred Classic Jewish Tales

by Howard Schwartz

Book Overview

In Leaves from the Garden of Eden, Howard Schwartz, a three-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award, has gathered together one hundred of the most astonishing and luminous stories from Jewish folk tradition.
Just as Schwartz's award-winning book Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism collected the essential myths of Jewish tradition, Leaves from the Garden of Eden collects one hundred essential Jewish tales. As imaginative as the Arabian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195335651
• ISBN13: 9780195335651
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Teaching Children Moral Values

I heard one of the stories from this book when I attended a Rosh Hashanah service. As a Sunday School teacher, I do not believe that religion should seggregate people with different spiritual affiliations. I thought I can read some stories in class and let the children learn about the characters in the Old Testament. It is also great for making the children dramatize the stories esp it involved animals.

a great collection

This is a great collection of Jewsih fairy tales, folk tales and myths. The tales are presented in a manner that preserves their oral, story telling voice. A gem to have handy to renew your connection with or to develop an appreciation for a priceless heritage. Should prove useful to researchers.

Spectacular resource!

As a professional Jewish storyteller, I'm frequently looking for new Jewish tales which strike me as great stories and resonate with me on a deep level. Again and again I have found such stories in Howard Schwartz's wonderful collections. To now have available a "best of" collection, with updated stories reflecting Schwartz's growing relationship with them as a storyteller, is such a wonderful blessing. As always with his works, the stories are very well told, and his selection of tales is replete with enchantment, beauty, and wisdom. I highly recommend this work to anyone interested in Jewish stories!