by Isaac Bashevis Singer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426430373
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«Cuentos judíos de la aldea de Chelm» is the book of Jewish stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Lumen in hardcover (78 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together stories inspired by Jewish tradition set in Chelm, an imaginary village famous for the antics and peculiar logic of its inhabitants. Singer combines humor and wisdom to tell everyday situations, customs and celebrations, while Maurice Sendak's drawings accompany the characters.
Translation by Homero Alsina Thevenet of the original 'Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories', published in 1966; this Spanish edition is from 1978.
For a young and adult audience interested in Jewish folklore and classic illustrated stories.
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated his own works into English with the help of editors and collaborators. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. A leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, he was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974).
