The second portion of the Jewish Fairy Tales story unit was
equally as interesting as the first section.
Once again there were characters that I was familiar with because of
their presence in other biblical stories, and then there were characters that
seemed to be coming out of absolute no where.
One of the stories that I found to be most interesting was
The Rabbi’s Bogey-Man. This story was
almost like an old age Jewish version of Frankenstein at times. As I was reading the story I was wondering if
this was one of the origin stories for the concept of the bogeyman as a horror
figure. Although, in this version the
bogeyman receives life like qualities by a Name parchment that it blessed by
the Holy Man.
One story that was included in the collection was called TheHiggledy-Piggledy Palace. Which stood
out to me not because of anything significant in it’s content. Which, is not to say it wasn’t a good story,
that just not the reason I’m pointing it out.
This story stood out to me because almost all the other stories have
titles that make you directly recall what the content was. The titles directly reference a certain
character, place, or act in the story.
Except for this one, which I thought was somewhat odd.
Overall, I’m glad I chose this story unit as my first
reading unit for this class. I thought
these stories were all rather well written and each was interesting in it’s own
light. Having not read any short stories
in a while I think these were a refreshing change to the materials I typically
read for school and other purposes.
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