The Shaddely-Babbelies: A Memoir of Childhood and Coming of Age in a Jerusalem-Hungarian Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798462119378)

What are "baby-killer" pills?
What shall the girl sent to buy Zeller ask for at the vegetable store?
Why is being on your own always said to be "alone as a dog"?
And what might happen to the moon if they don't stop bothering it?
In The Shaddely-Babbelies, Ilana Rosen, a professor of folk and documentary literature, revisits her childhood and adolescence in Jerusalem of the 1960s and 1970s, in a family whose parents had lived through the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust in Hungary. In some fifty amusing, poignant sketches, Rosen depicts Holocaust survivors, Hungarian-Israelis and their unique languages, streets, schools and cultural sites in Jerusalem, as well as many songs, nursery rhymes and expressions. The book is enriched by the drawings of the author's sister, Jerusalem artist Tova Balman.

Author: Tova Balman, Ilana Rosen
ISBN-10: 8462119375
ISBN-13: 9798462119378
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2021
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d