Peninnah Schram
Autor von Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another
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Peninnah Schram, an internationally known storyteller, author, and recording artist, is Associate Professor of Speech and Drama at Yeshiva University's Stern College and Azrieli Graduate School. As a storyteller, she is known for her elegant and dynamic way of telling stories. She is a recipient of mehr anzeigen the prestigious Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educators from The Covenant Foundation and The Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network. She lives in New York City. weniger anzeigen
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A Storyteller's Journey, II 2 Exemplare
Etzah's Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales 2 Exemplare
Stories and Songs of the Jewish People 1 Exemplar
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- New London, Connecticut, USA
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- University of Connecticut (BA)
Columbia University (MA) - Organisationen
- Iona College
Stern College, Yeshiva University - Kurzbiographie
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Professor Peninnah Schram joined the speech and drama department of Stern College in the fall of 1969 after teaching at Iona College for 2 years. She developed the first college course in Jewish storytelling in the mid-1970s and produced three Jewish Storytelling Festivals at Stern College for Women.
She is a recipient of a 1995 Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educator and the 2003 National Storytelling Network's Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received national recognition for her work in storytelling, including a National Jewish Book Award and two Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Awards. YU held a Folktales of Israel Festival in her honor on November 6, 2011. A book, Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, was published in her honor (November 2011) with 60 never-before-published stories by rabbis, educators and storytellers. Foreword was written by YU President Richard Joel.
She is the author of twelve books of Jewish folktales including The Apple Tree's Discovery, Mitzvah Stories (one of the editors and in honor of Peninnah), The Hungry Clothes and Other Jewish Folktales, The Magic Pomegranate, The Purim Costume, A Tree in the Garden, The Chanukah Blessing, and Stories Within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition, and one CD, The Minstrel and the Storyteller.
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Eight Tales for Eight Nights: Stories for Chanukah von Peninnah Schram
Peninah Schram is one of the great Jewish storytellers of our time. These stories range from traditional to original and are based in every Jewish culture. It's intended for family use, with suggestions for holiday celebration and an appendix with music to sing-along to. The main flaw with this is that, despite the large book layout, this is really more of a chapter book inside. The stories are long (for probably an 8 or 9 year old to read by themselves, or to be read to a patient 5 or 6 year old) and unillustrated.… (mehr)
In "The Dream and the Treasure," in the Polish city of Cracow, there lived Avrom son of Berl, a poor man with a large family. After dreaming three times of a treasure under the bridge in Prague, he travels there with his wife's blessing. The guard there laughs, explaining that if he believed in dreams he'd look under the stove of Avrom son of Isaac in Cracow, but since he's heard that half the Jews in Cracow are called Avrom and the other half are called Berl, he's staying where he is. Avrom uses some of the treasure to build a house of prayer, called "Reb Avrom's shul.… (mehr)
The Magic Pomegranate is a Jewish Folktale about three brothers who decide to take individual journeys to different countries in order to find the most unusual gift. The oldest brother travels to the west, the middle brother travels to the east, and the youngest brother travels to the south, and they all meet back up 10 years later with their unusual gifts. They find out that there is a sick princess in need and the three brothers travel to her rescue. Each of the brothers' unusual gifts aided in the recovery of the princess, but one of them was the most selfless, giving up something of his own. It is this brother who was granted the hand of the princess in marriage. The moral of the story is that those who are the most selfless reap the greatest rewards.
I didn't find the language particularly lively, but the book did capture my interest and kept me reading to find out what unusual gifts the brothers were going to find, as well as what they were going to do with those gifts. I will say that I would have liked to see something different in terms of what the brother's used their unusual gifts for, rather than saving an ill princess. I liked the moral of the story but, all in all, I would consider this book just ok.… (mehr)
I didn't find the language particularly lively, but the book did capture my interest and kept me reading to find out what unusual gifts the brothers were going to find, as well as what they were going to do with those gifts. I will say that I would have liked to see something different in terms of what the brother's used their unusual gifts for, rather than saving an ill princess. I liked the moral of the story but, all in all, I would consider this book just ok.… (mehr)
An interesting tale of brotherly adventure, cooperation, and competition with a lesson that sacrifice for the gain of others is valued. We have the motif of princess as commodity again, but she has some choice in the matter and demonstrates wisdom in exercising that choice.
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