Coat For the Moon and Other Jewish Tales

In this book the fairy tales which have come from the most different countries, but but created by one people.

Expelled from the native land during age-old times, Jews dispatch worldwide and have brought in new places the customs, the legends and magic fairy tales. Sometimes in them the well-known heroes, for example, tsar David or tsar Solomon, but more often - the most usual people, same, as parents who tell a fairy tale, and children who listen to it.

These fairy tales - a gate in the past of people, a voice of far ancestors. What do we learn about them? That they lived difficultly, have carried many misfortunes. And to encourage itself, told fantastic histories which always had the happy end.

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