Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Two witches, who practice their evil trade on lost travellers, are banished through the wisdom of a student of the holy cabala, and the power of his magic chalk.

In 1922 David Bendiger, an aspiring eighteen-year-old writer, is told he has qualified for a certificate permitting him to emigrate to Palestine. His expenses are to be paid by a woman he must marry in a fictitious arrangement.

The mean and ugly Emperor decrees that evil, ugliness, and stupidity are to be worshipped by everyone but cannot banish the appreciation of goodness, beauty, and learning in his kingdom.

As each animal boasts of the qualities he feels make him especially worthy to go on Noah's ark, Noah takes a particular liking to the dove.

A clay giant miraculously brought to life by a saintly rabbi saves a Jewish banker who has been falsely accused in the Prague of Emperor Rudolf II.

A young orphan's life is changed when the angel he meets in the forest gives him an amulet that will fulfill every wish.

Seven stories based on middle-European Jewish folklore and legends.

Seven stories based on middle-european Jewish folklore and legends.