The Aleph-Bet Book

The grandson of Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov), founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was renowned for his storytelling. After his death a number of his moralistic and symbolic tales were published in a bilingual Yiddish and Hebrew book. These tales had an important impact on later Yiddish writing and, thanks largely to the efforts of the philosopher Martin Buber (see Vol. 4), were eventually made known to a far wider public. Several English translations of The Tales exist, one of them published by Rabbi Nachman's disciples.

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