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Schwartz, Howard
Forward
09-24-2004
Howard Schwartz, a professor of English at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis, has been publishing books of Jewish folklore, poetry and children's
stories for more than a quarter-century. His latest, "Tree of Souls: The
Mythology of Judaism" (Oxford University Press, 2004), gathers nearly 700
tales from the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, kabbalistic literature, Hasidic
tales and newly collected oral lore. The following excerpt is from the
section related to the holiday of Sukkot, titled "The Flying Shoe."

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