One-Minute Jewish Stories

by Shari Lewis

Book Overview

Twenty stories from various aspects of Jewish life--the Talmud, folklore, the Bible, history--all in a format for reading in one minute. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385244479
• ISBN13: 9780385244473
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Length: 45 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Pass on this book

None of the stories are actually from the Bible. She took stories from the Bible and changed them to something that isnt even recognizable. I bought the book to read to my grandkids to teach them about the Bible but I just need to throw the book away

The way back to Chelm

I had no idea when I watched Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop on television as a child that her grandfather was a rabbi. So we learn in the introduction to this charming book. "I found myself weeping as I read of the indomitable spirit with which endless generations of Jews have faced a hostile world," she writes. The book includes 20 stories, none more than two pages, and several of them related, touchingly, in only one. Several are Biblical, such as Abraham and the idols, how Moses became a stutterer, Jonah and Ninevah and one of David. Children will also delight in Solomon's lesson about the importance of small creatures. Other tales are Talmudic, for example one about the boy who prays with a flute.Still others are humorous, like the tale of the cobbler from Chelm: On a trip from Chelm to the big city, he falls asleep under a tree, but first points his boots toward Warsaw so he'll know which way to go when he awakens. As he sleeps, a branch dangling from the side of a wagon turns the boots around. When he wakes, the toes point towards Chelm so he follows them back home. He arrives thinking, "Why is Warsaw so famous? This is no different than Chelm."Kids love these stories so much that our copy is falling apart. Alyssa A. Lappen