Jewish fairy tales. Zacher-Mazokh von L.

Leopold Zacher-Mazokha, first of all, know as the author of erotic short stories and novels about the painful passion for self-destruction in love-a deviation named by his name Masochism. Meanwhile, the work of the Austrian writer is not limited to piquant works and includes historical essays and philosophical novels, household stories and parables, plays and a libretto to opera and operettas.

Book Club “Book -Club” offers to your attention “Jewish Tales”, Poorly standing in the literary heritage of Zacher-Mazokh. “Jewish fairy tales”, which are represented by the Book Club, are a whole series of small stories, performed life, piquant contrasts, living dialogues: sometimes ridiculous, and sometimes harsh and strict, but always truthful. The heroes of fairy tales are scattered across the towns of Russia and Turkey, Sweden and Switzerland, Belgium and Spain and other provincial places, but they are united by deep religiosity, limitless patience and extraordinary hard work. There are almost no negative characters. The best qualities of the sons of Israel are revealed before us: love, mind, resourcefulness, ironicism, mercy and endless kindness, because “the honor of a Jew is not to shed blood, but to do good and be a decent person.”

and, in addition, Heroes of fairy tales never lose heart...