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Title: The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition by Nina Jaffe, Louise August ISBN: 0-8050-4384-5 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Cindrella tale and a love test from the Jewish Tradition
Comment: "The Way Meat Loves Salt" is subtitled "A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition," but older readers will recognize a bit of Shakespeare's "King Lear" in the beginning of this story told by Nina Jaffe. The setting is many years ago in Poland where a rabbi one day asks his three daughters "How much do you love me?" Reyzeleh, the oldest daughter, replies, "I love you as much as diamonds." Khaveleh, the middle child, answers, " I love you as much as gold and silver." However, Mireleh, the youngest daughter, replies "I love you the way meat loves salt," at which point her father banishes her from the home since she has compared him to lowly salt. As to the meaning of Mireleh's comment, that is not yet explained and the rabbi, despite being a student of the Talmud who ponders questions long and hard, spends no time trying to figure out the meaning of his daughter's words.
As for Mireleh, she encounters an old man with shining eyes who gives him a small wooden stick. He sends her off to the home of Rabbi Yitskhok ben Levi, the renown scholar of Lublin, who lives with his wife and son, and explains that the stick is magic: tap in on the ground three times and anything Mireleh wishes for will appear. The young girl is taken into Rabbi Yitskhok's home as a beggar girl and allowed to stay in the attic. When the family goes to Cracow for a wedding, Mireleh longs to attend and uses the magic stick to come up with a dress. At this point we are into the familiar territory of the Cinderella story. But there is still the question of the meaning of Mireleh's words to her father and their reconciliation.
Jaffe notes that the Cinderella tale has been found in countless cultures around the world, with the earliest version being recorded in China in the 9th century. The Jewish version of the tale comes from the story "How Much Do You Love Me?" from the classic collection "Yiddish Folktales," and was apparently sent down in Poland in the 1920s. Jaffe acknowledges that the framing device of "the love test," appears in both Shakespeare and folktales from around the world as well. In Jaffe's hands this becomes a "vunder-mayse" (a wonder tale) of the sort her grandmother might have heard as a child.
"The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition" is illustrated by Louise August, who worked with full-color oils on rice paper, providing a rather distinctive look quite compatible with the origins of this story. Teachers or parents will find this story a nice way of showing young readers how there are variations of a well-known theme to be found in literature. What I especially liked about this one is how the elements of a different story, "the love test," are combined in the telling of this particular tale. Consequently we not only have an example of comparative literature here but a look at a more complex form of such storytelling.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Jewish Cinderella
Comment: This book is somewhat similar to the Cinderella that I know, but it has a different twist. It combines Cinderella and the Jewish culture. I will leave the rest for you, the reader, to find out what goes on the book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A very interesting version of Cinderell
Comment: this is another interesting version of Cinderella, but it also plays off of Shakespeare's King Lear. Look for the reference, shakespeare buffs and I am sure that you will find it. I really think that this books opens up a non-western tale in a traditional way that children will understand.
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Title: The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story by Rebecca Hickox, Will Hillenbrand ISBN: 0823415139 Publisher: Holiday House Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella (Picture Puffins) by Alan Schroeder, Brad Sneed, Charles Cendrillon Perrault ISBN: 0140566732 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story by Judy Sierra, Reynold Ruffins ISBN: 0689821883 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Domitila: A Cinderella Tale from the Mexican Tradition by Jewell Reinhart Coburn, Connie McLennan ISBN: 1885008139 Publisher: Shen's Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China (Paperstar Book) by Ai-Ling Louie, Ed Young, Ed. Young ISBN: 0698113888 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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