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The Bramble and the Pomegranate (from The Words of Ahiqar)
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The [bram]ble sent a message to the pomegranate as follows: “Dear Pomegranate, what good are all [your] thorns [to him who tou]ches your [fru]it?” The [pome] granate replied to the bramble, “You are…

Places:

Elephantine (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Fifth Century BCE

Subjects:

Ecology, Wisdom, Folklore, Morality

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature, Folklore
Mischief’s Just Deserts
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Contributor:

Unknown

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Morality, Comics, Children, Folklore, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of person standing on bridge over river, and two people running on riverbank toward bridge.
Simkhe Platke, or the Universal Swindler
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…

Contributor:

Yankev Morgenshtern

Places:

Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1870s or 1880s

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Folklore, Shtetl, Rural life, Morality

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Folklore