This week my storybook unit was the Jewish Fairy Tales
section. The section featured 11 short
stories from the Jewish culture. The
overview of the unit determined that the stories come both from biblical origin
as well as more recent and present times.
Overall, I thought this unit was very enjoyable. I could both appreciate and somewhat disliked
the mixture of stories from different parts of Jewish culture. I think my first glance opinion of this story
unit was that it would be less religiously based than it was. However, being a part of the Biblical section
of the class should have clued me into to such a factor. Perhaps a separate unit between Jewish
religious stories and Jewish fairy tales in general, such as old wives’ tales
and such would provide more clarification.
Having experience wit biblical teachings and biblical
stories allowed me to seamlessly understand who was being spoken about in
different stories. For example, who
Noah, Abraham, the Pharaoh, and other biblical characters being placed into
stories wasn’t a problem for me.
However, for individuals without that kind of experience some background
information of these characters and their significance may be beneficial to the
full enjoyment of the stories.
Several pieces of different stories surprised me. Particularly the story about Noah and Og the
Giant, The Giant of the Flood, was surprising to me. I would not have pictured the Jewish culture
telling a story involving a giant in the midst of the great flood. Also, a unicorn being present in this story
threw me for somewhat of a loop. Simply
because I didn’t expect that kind of fantasy to be worked into a biblical
rooted story.
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| Og and the Unicorn Photo acquired from The UnTextbook |
This story unit provided me with a good look into the Jewish
Fairy Tales, which is what I sought to gain by reading this section. I can see somewhat tangencies to the other
story units that I reviewed during week one in their construction and voice
from which the story is told.
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