{"product_id":"jewels-teasing-out-the-poetry-in-jewish-humor-and-storytelling-paperback-softback-9780827615526","title":"JEWels; Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling (Paperback \/ softback) 9780827615526","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJEWels\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTeasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteve Zeitlin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780827615526\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 February 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, index\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.652 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"From wry quotes by Gol­da Meier to bawdy 'Abe and Becky' jokes told by seniors and life-rein­forc­ing philo­soph­i­cal humor in the midst of pain, \u003ci\u003eJEW­els\u003c\/i\u003e delights with sur­prise. There will be some­thing new here for everyone.\"-\u003ci\u003eJewish Book Council\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"I recommend \u003ci\u003eJEWels\u003c\/i\u003e to anyone interested in Jewish culture in general, and especially to those interested in its rich folklore. . . . The commentaries, alongside the \"jewels\" themselves, make for lessons one might never forget\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003ethat there is beauty even in terrible situations, laughter to be found in all aspects of life, and that stories reminding us of these facts might be more relevant now than ever before.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"These poems made me laugh, cry or nod with acknowledgment to the wisdom offered. . . . Zeitlin notes that he hopes to give readers a chance to experience a wide range of Jewish perspectives on the world. In that, he has definitely succeeded.\"-\u003ci\u003eReporter\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Perfect addition to any poetry collections as well as collections with Jewish story and or joke anthologies.\"-\u003ci\u003eAssociation of Jewish Libraries Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Steve Zeitlin is a national treasure who celebrates the voices of everyday life. Wise, funny, and poignant, his book \u003ci\u003eJEWels\u003c\/i\u003e brings Judaism to life in short bursts of words that explode off the page and infuse our hearts with light and truth.”-Dave Isay, founder of \u003ci\u003eStoryCorps\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I could not put this book down. \u003ci\u003eJEWels\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliant, intelligent, well researched, and has heart. It’s an immersive experience in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, but the parts are what matter, each jewel standing on its own.”-Amy Shuman, professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University and author of \u003ci\u003eOther People’s Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eJEWels\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique, humorous, and sensitive link in the chain of Jewish storytelling, humor, and commentary.”-Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Book of Jewish Humor\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJEWels\u003c\/i\u003e is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid-jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems-Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary and questions for discussion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Illuminated here are jewels from journeys, from the Old Country, from Torah, shaped by the Holocaust, in glimpses of Jewish American lives, in Jewish foods, in conversations with God, and on the meaning of life. Jewish comedians (Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason) appear alongside writers and musicians (Elie Wiesel, Sholem Aleichem, Itzhak Perlman) and Hasidic rabbis (the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov), yet most of the tellers are ordinary Jews. In this cacophony of ongoing dialogue, storytellers, rabbis, poets, and scholars chime in with interpretations, quips, and related stories and life experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eJEWels\u003c\/i\u003e each of us can see our own reflection.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Ancient Living Tradition of Jewish Jokes and Stories\u003cbr\u003e The Parrot\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e The Face of a Human Being\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Rabbi Edward Schecter, based on an old midrash\u003cbr\u003e Holocaust Jokes\u003cbr\u003e Contemporary joke retold by Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e Excerpt from “\u003cbr\u003eWe Tell”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By Cherie Karo-Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e 1. JEWels . . . in Stories\u003cbr\u003e Now the Story\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov\u003cbr\u003e Stories            \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Edgar Hilsenrath\u003cbr\u003e Tales              \u003cbr\u003e Lined out from an inscription in Elie Wiesel’\u003cbr\u003es Souls on Fire\u003cbr\u003e The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Stories\u003cbr\u003e By Esther Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Burning the Scrolls\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e A Table with People\u003cbr\u003e By Marc Kaminsky\u003cbr\u003e 2. JEWels . . . on a Journey\u003cbr\u003e Paradise\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e The Guru        \u003cbr\u003e Contemporary joke retold by Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Mameloshen  \u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Bubba Truth   \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Jane Yolen\u003cbr\u003e Traveler’\u003cbr\u003es Prayer\u003cbr\u003e By Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg\u003cbr\u003e 3. JEWels . . . from the Old Country\u003cbr\u003e The Sabbath Fish\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Cherie Karo Schwartz’\u003cbr\u003es version of Jewish folklore from Eastern Europe and Yemen and earlier version from the Babylonian Talmud\u003cbr\u003e The Magic Ship\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Howard Schwartz’\u003cbr\u003es telling of a folktale in the Israel Folktale Archives\u003cbr\u003e Tales of the Razbash\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e The Rabbis’\u003cbr\u003e Convocation\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Robert J. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e The Sweeper  \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e The Shammes: A Response\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Rabbi Edward Schecter’\u003cbr\u003es retelling of “\u003cbr\u003eThe Sweeper”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Once Upon a Time in the Old Country\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi David Holtz\u003cbr\u003e The Hunchback\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Zev Shanken and Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e A Cold Ass    \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an interview with Sylvia Cole\u003cbr\u003e An Offspring’\u003cbr\u003es Answer\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Peninnah Schram and Steve Zeitlin from The Memoirs of GlÜ\u003cbr\u003eckel of Hameln\u003cbr\u003e The Cart         \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a summer camp story told by Rabbi David Holtz\u003cbr\u003e Blessing the New Moon in Wintertime\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the poem by Rachel Ray Lehrer Faust\u003cbr\u003e The Rabbi and the Balagola\u003cbr\u003e Traditional folktale retold by Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Elijah             \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale told by Amy Shuman, based on a telling by Dov Noy\u003cbr\u003e Parable of the Horse\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Jack Tepper\u003cbr\u003e Who Said the Jews Killed Jesus?\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an oral history by Baruch Lumet\u003cbr\u003e The Hasid      \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e A Nineteenth-Century Hasid Contemplates the Modern World\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from a story about the teachings of Abraham Yaakov of Sagadora, as recounted by Martin Buber\u003cbr\u003e Philosophy with Noodles\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram\u003cbr\u003e The Rooster Prince\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov\u003cbr\u003e Publishing      \u003cbr\u003e Lined out from a traditional tale by Rebbe Menachem-Mendel of Kotzk, as retold by Elie Wiesel\u003cbr\u003e The Teller of Tales\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter and Marc Kaminsky\u003cbr\u003e The Temples Rise\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by storyteller Roslyn Bresnick-Perry\u003cbr\u003e Conversations over a Glass Tea\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Peninnah Schram\u003cbr\u003e Fresh Rolls and Butter\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken, inspired by the short story “\u003cbr\u003eBontshe Shvayg”\u003cbr\u003e by I. L. Peretz\u003cbr\u003e How We Lived: A Tribute to Mayer Kirshenblatt\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin and Marc Kaminsky from They Called Me Mayer July by storyteller and painter Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett\u003cbr\u003e 4. JEWels . . . in Jokes\u003cbr\u003e Passementerie\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a telling by Jack Tepper\u003cbr\u003e Telling Jokes in the Shtetl\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e My Mother Liked Telling Jokes\u003cbr\u003e By Esther Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Taxi                \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Einstein’\u003cbr\u003es Theory of Relativity\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Schwartz        \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Abe and Becky\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Herb Shore\u003cbr\u003e The Theater   \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Herb Shore\u003cbr\u003e The Perfect Girl\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Two Old Jews at a Urinal\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Time Stamp   \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e The Plotkin Diamond\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Rich Man       \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Golda             \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold as a clever comeback by Golda Meir\u003cbr\u003e The Commandments\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a telling by Rubin Levine\u003cbr\u003e Perfect           \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram\u003cbr\u003e Toyota            \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Worry            \u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e The Summum Bonum\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Abe Lass\u003cbr\u003e Zoom             \u003cbr\u003e By Marc Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Self-Critique  \u003cbr\u003e By Sparrow\u003cbr\u003e Jewish Mother Telegram\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e A Freudian Analysis\u003cbr\u003e Attributed to, among others, Julia Sweeney, who wrote a book with this title\u003cbr\u003e Jewish Mothers\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Twenty Years\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Seven Differences between a Joke and a Poem\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e Optimism\/Pessimism\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e 5. JEWels . . . from Torah\u003cbr\u003e The Tsimtsum\u003cbr\u003e By Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e Rabbi Simon Said\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a midrash in the name of Rabbi Simon Jacobson\u003cbr\u003e Hillel and Shammai\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e What I Would Tell Adam and Eve\u003cbr\u003e By Francine Witte\u003cbr\u003e The Original Adam and Eve\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story in Howard Schwartz’\u003cbr\u003es Tree of Souls\u003cbr\u003e The Birth of Memory\u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Enough!         \u003cbr\u003e Contemporary tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e The Razbash Describes God’\u003cbr\u003es Test\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e The Prophet   \u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e Moses and the Superhero\u003cbr\u003e By Jack Santino\u003cbr\u003e Rabbi Hayim Vital Dreams of Moses\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale in Howard Schwartz’\u003cbr\u003es Tree of Souls\u003cbr\u003e Miriam’\u003cbr\u003es Wandering Well\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e Lamb’\u003cbr\u003es Blood\u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e A Rabbinical Love Poem\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e Twelve Rabbis Went to a Party\u003cbr\u003e By Annie Lanzillotto\u003cbr\u003e The Lamed Vavniks\u003cbr\u003e By Arthur Strimling\u003cbr\u003e 6. JEWels . . . Shaped by the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e Tickling the Corpse\u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Holocaust Jokes\u003cbr\u003e Contemporary joke retold by Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank\u003cbr\u003e By Linda Pastan\u003cbr\u003e Riding with the Moon\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story by Roslyn Bresnick-Perry\u003cbr\u003e Last Supper in the Krakow Ghetto\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from oral testimonies by survivors of the Krakow ghetto uprising\u003cbr\u003e Hovering above the Pit\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Yaffa Eliach\u003cbr\u003e In the Janowska Street Ghetto\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Marc Kaminsky from a story retold by Yaffa Eliach\u003cbr\u003e The Twig       \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from RenÉ\u003cbr\u003ee Fodor Schwarz’\u003cbr\u003es memoir RenÉ\u003cbr\u003ee\u003cbr\u003e In Memory of Those Who Died in Vain in the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e Excerpted from a poem by RenÉ\u003cbr\u003ee Fodor Schwarz\u003cbr\u003e Forgotten Acts of Courage\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin and Marc Kaminsky from Alex Borstein’\u003cbr\u003es Emmy acceptance speech\u003cbr\u003e Rachel\u003cbr\u003e By Linda Pastan\u003cbr\u003e Death Train    \u003cbr\u003e Lined out from AndrÉ\u003cbr\u003e Schwartz-Bart’\u003cbr\u003es The Last of the Just\u003cbr\u003e Kaddish in the Boxcar of Death\u003cbr\u003e By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Morris M. Faierstein\u003cbr\u003e Face in the Mirror\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story by Boris Blum, retold by Toby Blum-Dobkin\u003cbr\u003e 7. JEWels . . . in Glimpses of Jewish American Lives\u003cbr\u003e Rummage      \u003cbr\u003e By Marc Kaminsky\u003cbr\u003e Yiddishe Mama during World War II\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from the essay “\u003cbr\u003eThe Healing Power of Jokes”\u003cbr\u003e by Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman\u003cbr\u003e Plucking the Chicken\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Abe Lass\u003cbr\u003e Getting Dressed\u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e No More Birthdays\u003cbr\u003e By Hal Sirowitz\u003cbr\u003e A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e By Linda Pastan\u003cbr\u003e At a Bungalow in the Rockaways\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Tradition!      \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Jewish and Goyish\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a routine by Lenny Bruce\u003cbr\u003e The Great Trick Is to Know Who You Are\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from Jackie Mason’\u003cbr\u003es Broadway show The World According to Me\u003cbr\u003e Skin Check    \u003cbr\u003e By Esther Cohen\u003cbr\u003e It Reminds Me of Those Old Jokes\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e The Rabbi      \u003cbr\u003e By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett\u003cbr\u003e Reflection      \u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e True Story      \u003cbr\u003e By Carol Klenfner\u003cbr\u003e To Kvell or Not to Kvell\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e The Free-Yarmulke Bin\u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e The Kiss         \u003cbr\u003e By Mark Solomon\u003cbr\u003e The Driver Said\u003cbr\u003e By Robert Hershon\u003cbr\u003e Clara              \u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Alicia             \u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Sally               \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story told by Anita Nager\u003cbr\u003e Moishe Said   \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Jack Kugelmass\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Joshua Heschel Goes to Selma\u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin, quoting Abraham Joshua Heschel\u003cbr\u003e 8. JEWels . . . in Jewish Foods\u003cbr\u003e The Bagel      \u003cbr\u003e By David Ignatow\u003cbr\u003e The Fish         \u003cbr\u003e By Lila Zeiger\u003cbr\u003e Happiness      \u003cbr\u003e Lined out from a recollection by Moishe Sacks\u003cbr\u003e A Jewish Blessing Sung When Placing the Bread in the Oven\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous\u003cbr\u003e The Atheist    \u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e The Jews and Chinese Food\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e The Jewish Waiter\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e The Strudel    \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Aging Parents\u003cbr\u003e By Marc Wallace\u003cbr\u003e The Schtup     \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale by Lisa Lipkin\u003cbr\u003e Fresh Fish Sold Here\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Cherie Karo Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e How to Make Blintzes\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Cherie Karo Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e 2nd Avenue Kosher\u003cbr\u003e By Dennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer\u003cbr\u003e From “\u003cbr\u003eThe Whole Soul”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By Philip Levine\u003cbr\u003e 9. JEWels . . . in Conversations with God\u003cbr\u003e The Messiah #1\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from Michael Gold’\u003cbr\u003es Jews without Money\u003cbr\u003e The Messiah #2\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Closer            \u003cbr\u003e By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Morris M. Faierstein\u003cbr\u003e Wrestling with God\u003cbr\u003e By Bob Mankoff\u003cbr\u003e Somebody Up There Likes Me\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Bob Mankoff\u003cbr\u003e It’\u003cbr\u003es All Relative\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram\u003cbr\u003e Tevye the Milkman Said\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from the story “\u003cbr\u003eTevye Strikes It Rich”\u003cbr\u003e by Sholem Aleichem\u003cbr\u003e My Aunt’\u003cbr\u003es Ninetieth Birthday\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a quip by Ann Katz\u003cbr\u003e The Tailor’\u003cbr\u003es Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e A Pair of Pants\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e The Do-Over  \u003cbr\u003e By Steve Zeitlin, inspired by a conversation with Richard Rabinowitz\u003cbr\u003e The dna in My Coffee-A True Story\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the story “\u003cbr\u003eGod and dna over Coffee”\u003cbr\u003e by Lisa Lipkin\u003cbr\u003e Deconstructing Heaven\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Rabbi Avraham Weiss\u003cbr\u003e Levi Yitzhak Burns the Evidence\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e Six Lines        \u003cbr\u003e By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Robert Friend\u003cbr\u003e To the Rescue\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Lifeline          \u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e 10. JEWels . . . on the Meaning of Life\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning of Meaning\u003cbr\u003e By Bob Holman\u003cbr\u003e Who Knows? \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Flash Rosenberg from one of her father’\u003cbr\u003es favorite jokes\u003cbr\u003e Hineni            \u003cbr\u003e By Flash Rosenberg\u003cbr\u003e The Angel of Death\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an essentially true story in Howard Schwartz’\u003cbr\u003es Tree of Souls\u003cbr\u003e The Land        \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e If Not Higher!\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the short story “\u003cbr\u003eIf Not Higher!”\u003cbr\u003e by I. L. Peretz\u003cbr\u003e Time All at Once\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Caroline Harris\u003cbr\u003e Soul Sight      \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from Howard Schwartz’\u003cbr\u003es Tree of Souls\u003cbr\u003e The Burning Twig\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Robert J. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e Oy                  \u003cbr\u003e Lined out from a spontaneous observation by Eli Levine\u003cbr\u003e The Philosopher\u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e Life                \u003cbr\u003e Traditional joke\u003cbr\u003e The Razbash on Old Age\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e Doctor, Doctor\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Doris Kirshenblatt\u003cbr\u003e Yizkor            \u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e The Razbash on Forgiveness\u003cbr\u003e By Zev Shanken\u003cbr\u003e The Womb     \u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e Moishe’\u003cbr\u003es Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from Moishe Sacks’\u003cbr\u003es comments in The Grand Generation documentary (1993)\u003cbr\u003e The Angel of Forgetfulness\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from Dara Horn’\u003cbr\u003es novel The World to Come\u003cbr\u003e The Laughing Man\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from Elie Wiesel’\u003cbr\u003es Souls on Fire, based on writings attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov\u003cbr\u003e               Wiesel’\u003cbr\u003es Response\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from Elie Wiesel’\u003cbr\u003es Souls on Fire\u003cbr\u003e The Fiftieth Gate\u003cbr\u003e Lined out from a passage by Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, as recounted by Martin Buber\u003cbr\u003e Whitewater Rapids\u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from the story “\u003cbr\u003eWhitewater”\u003cbr\u003e by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi\u003cbr\u003e The Ring        \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale\u003cbr\u003e The Beautiful Question\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Steve Zeitlin\u003cbr\u003e Lost in the Woods\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Peninnah Schram\u003cbr\u003e Shmuel Discovers a Purpose in Life\u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e Coda   \u003cbr\u003e Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter\u003cbr\u003e Concerto        \u003cbr\u003e Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi Eli Rubenstein\u003cbr\u003e 11. Final Thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Questions for Discussion\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Commentator Biographies\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580505485592,"sku":"9780827615526","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jewels-teasing-out-the-poetry-in-jewish-humor-and-storytelling-paperback-softback-9780827615526","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}