tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30101135.post5514003625921809255..comments2024-02-26T13:00:13.523+01:00Comments on EDGAR HAUSTER: Which is more important, the sun or the moon?... (Chelm, 1675 km)Edgar Hausterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02845427906846633254noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30101135.post-25775319020565833452018-08-10T17:29:52.432+02:002018-08-10T17:29:52.432+02:00As a child of about 5-6 my grandfather used to tak...As a child of about 5-6 my grandfather used to take me to the Schiller park' feed me simultaneously a slice of buttered toast with a lot of garlic rubbed in the crust (oh, how delicious!)and a lot of stories of the savants of Chelm, peppered with stories about the famous twists of Hersheli of Ostropoli, and softened here and there with some stories about the wonders performed by the Baal Shem Tov, What a bliss for a kid at that age to wander in this wonderful world of Jewish comic lore, that I later complemented with the books of Till Eulenspiegel and Max und Moritz. It was quite a revelation to me that I captured the attention of my kids at similar ages' when I retold again and again the stories about Chelm and Hersheli, this time in Hebrew and not in the juicy original Yiddish. I am afraid that this lore that presevered for centuiries in Eastern Europe is perhaps lost by now with the kids at that age being spellbound by their iphones. tablets and computers. <br /><br />Mordecai lapidotm@inter.net.ilnoreply@blogger.com