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| The Wedding That Saved a Town (Kar-Ben Favorites) | 
 enlarge | Author: Yale Strom
Creator: Jenya Prosmitsky
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 326446
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0822573768
EAN: 9780822573760
ASIN: 0822573768
Publication Date: September 2008
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Condition: Hardcover. This book is brand new :-)
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Product Description
This charmingly ghoulish folktale based on an old European Jewish cusotm of holding a wedding in a cemetery to ward off the "Evil Eye." Klezmer musician Yiske and his band of musicians must find a groom to participate in this unconventional wedding and save the town from the plague.
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Stories for Children Magazine 5 Star Review October 5, 2008
REVIEWED BY: Gayle Jacobson-Huset, Managing Editor
Yiske and his Klezmer Band are invited by Rabbi Yamford to play at a wedding in the town of Pinske. After they arrive, the Band rests while Yiske goes to talk to the Rabbi. He finds out that the town is in the midst of a cholera epidemic. The Rabbi is planning a Shvartze Chaseneh or
"Black Wedding" to help rid the town of cholera since they've tried everything else. If two orphans get married in a cemetery, then a miracle may happen. The Rabbi has a bride picked out, but there's no groom, so Yiske and his faithful horse Fairdy go in search of just the right groom. Did Yiske find one? Were the townspeople too sick to go to the wedding? Did people get 'creeped out" about attending a wedding in a cemetery? You will just have to read this very interesting book to see what happens next! The author supplies a Glossary of Yiddish words at the end of the story as well as an explanation of how "black weddings" came about.
This was a well-written book with great "voice" for the characters that all had some really fun-sounding names. I really enjoyed the cute illustrations by Jenya Prosmitsky also. I give this book a high-five for keeping the reader interested to the very end, and for teaching all of us about the legend of the black weddings, something I'd never heard of previous to reading this cute book!
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