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Jewish stories are part of the heritage of our people,often capturing the essence of Jewish experience.the stories in thisvolume will provide hours of reading enjoyment for older children andteenagers.Parents and teachers will turn to them again and againwhen they are called upon to be storytellers themselves. Thecontribution of Nissan Mindel to the treasury of Jewish stories isinestimable. He has, for the past five decades, researched andpresented to both English and Yiddish reading audiences stories minedfrom sources inaccessible to the average person. They cover a widerange of subjects: Great Jewish personalities, the festivals, Jewishlife in medieval and pre-Holocaust times, the Holocaust, and lifebehind the Iron Curtain.

The world of innkeeper and nobleman, shepherd and woodchopper, spicemerchant and gem dealer, comes alive to reveal to us the workings ofDivine Providence and the events that helped shape Jewish history.