“One must write for the children the way one writes for the adults: except, better.” — Korney Chukovsky
Perhaps it’s true not just regarding writing.
Of course, reading some contemporary Jewish books, one sometimes finds the opposite: they are intended for adults, but are written as if for children, except worse.
In other news, are you ready for Peisach? (I am not; I don’t even know where I’ll be spending it.) These people are.
14 comments:
Please, do not pollute your mind with "popular" "Jewish" "Literature".
Even one of religious nature?
Even more so.
So, I shouldn’t read, say, the biography of Alter Rebbe (not necc. an example of what I was talking about)?
How about Tzvi Freeman’s Sinai Files (or Moon Files, or whatever they’re called)?
How about Brain over Matter?
Did you read my first comment? Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I should have specified "fiction".
Oh. I don’t read that stuff anyway (not fiction in general, but Jewish fiction). Although if you look at how well researched some of the modern Jewish non-fiction is, it almost classifies as fiction.
And I was talking about non-fiction anyway. (Although Chukovsky was talking about fiction.)
"Although if you look at how well researched some of the modern Jewish non-fiction is, it almost classifies as fiction."
This is either a mistake or pure brilliance.
It was sarcastic. Although I may have missed an article or two, as usual.
Ahh.
Come to skokie and stay by us! My brother-in-law and his mom are coming, so you'll be able to chit chat about chekhov and borscht with them.
not to mention gain invaluable insights into the holiday bu chit chatting with my venerable father
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Thank you for the invitation, but I think I may be an unwelcome sight in Skokie for some. (No details.)
We can keep you away from the unwanted elements. Skokie is not CH.
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