Fables for Enjoyment and Education
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Nisenbaum, Isaac
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1966
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There are twenty fables here in this twelve-page pamphlet. It measures 8¾ x 6. There is a list of them, with morals, on the first two pages. Apparently all twenty are original fables. I do not think they have the crispness and sharpness requisite for a good Aesopic fable. Some of the texts might be stronger if they were half the length. I have noticed one or two tense errors and some strange use of idioms. A little bird, for example, was flown out of her nest (11). Might Rabbi Nisenbaum have been brought up in another language? Many of the fables move beyond two characters or two or three incidents. Maybe the most engaging of the fables is Birds on 8. A cat gets used to two birds, but he is not used to a raven that comes to harass them. He kills the raven and never touches the birds. Another fable, rather typically Aesopic, has a hoarding sheep, shunned by the flock, call on a pack of wolves for vengeance against her sister sheep. The wolves come and eat all the sheep, including the hoarder (8). There cannot be many copies of a little booklet like this around forty years later.
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Published apparently by the author
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5436 (Access ID)