At 15:43 07/28/03 -0400, you wrote: >I'm just picking up this thread. > >Some years ago, I wrote a paper entitled "Wise Fools," the greatest part of >which was about the Chelm stories. Writing that paper, I learned, with >surprise, that Chelm is a real place, a town in Poland in the vicinity of >Lublin. ". . .Chelm is considered to be one of the oldest communities in >Poland, possibly dating from the twelfth century, and its Jewish community
When I was in college one of my professors of education claimed to have been born in the real city of Chelm. She was really wise and not a "Chelmite." Whenever I tell a Chelm story I start my saying there are two places named, Chelm, the actual city and the one in our imagination. DS Daniel Stuhlman Chicago, IL 60645 ddstuhlman @ earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
