Reading Notes: Jewish Fairy Tales, Part B

Part B of the reading was very interesting, some of the stories that I read were stories that I had heard before, but in a different style and ending. The way that a lot of the stories started were from hardships. They all were similar in the fact that their faith was put to the test and in time they were rewarded if they stuck to their faith. I found this interesting because it made me wonder what would happen if they did not trust in their faith. The detail in the stories was great too because there was a lot of it, and the words used to describe it were not common words. There were a couple new words added to my vocabulary while reading because I had to look some of them up to understand the context of the reading. These stories also were great because they gave me insight into what the history and faith of the Jewish culture is like. I enjoyed learning another style of writing and look forward to reading more next week as well as reading others posts on their choice of reading.

City of Jerusalem, seen in many Jewish Fairy tales

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Bibliography: The stories talked about in this reading section were written by Gertrude Landa from the Jewish Fairy Tales Unit in the blog section. I recommend looking over these stories in order to improve writing skills.