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- Gloria is a Jewish Cinderella from Beverly Hills, and Willard is the ultimate WASP.
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Mar 1, 2022 · Cinderella is a conventional story of a low status woman who is elevated when she is chosen against all odds by a powerful man. The Book of Esther is a lampoon of powerful men which turns on its...
Jan 30, 2015 · A Jewish Cinderella Story, With a Soap-opera Twist. The daughter of Jewish immigrants and 20th-century American history are the protagonists of Susan Jane Gilman's new novel.
Sep 15, 1998 · The Way Meat Loves Salt: A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition, is a Jewish rendition of Cinderella told by Nina Jaffe. In this version of the tale, a rabbi lives in Poland with his three daughters and wonderful wife.
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Sep 28, 2010 · The well-known fairy tale of the forlorn, young, beautiful girl stuck in an oppressive home as the maidservant to her stepmother and stepsisters after her father’s death somehow left me yearning...
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Like many versions from around the globe, Kao and the Golden Fishby Wilai Punpattanakul-Crouch and Cheryl Hamada includes the central elements of the Cinderella story: a young, hardworking girl bullied by her evil stepmother and stepsisters until she meets and falls in love with a prince. However, in this Thai tale, the young girl's mother doesn't ...
Chinye: A West African Folk Taleby Obi Onyefulu is a Nigerian version that revolves around Chinye, a young girl who lives with her greedy stepmother and stepsister. While this version does not include a glass shoe or a handsome prince, it does focus on the morals of prosperityfor the honest, and peril for the greedy. Chinye is sent into the dark fo...
Set in a Polish village, Raisel's Riddleis a Jewish retelling that focuses on a smart, motivated heroine and a hero (the rabbi's son) who is drawn to wisdom and virtue. Raised by her poor but wise grandfather, Raisel grows up a strong, independent girl. After his passing, she finds work in the kitchen of a rabbi. On Purim, she gains three wishes an...
Rebecca Hickox retells the Iraqi folktale, "The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold," in The Golden Sandal,based on Inea Bushnaq's Arab folktales. In this story, Maha, the daughter of a fisherman, bears the brunt of her stepmother's jealousies. She befriends a little red fish who helps her as she grows older. Instead of a ball, there is a wedding ...
The ancient Egyptianversion of the story centers around a slave girl named Rhodopis, who was stolen away from her home in Greece. Instead of stepsisters, she is ill-treated by the Egyptian servant girls. In this version, Rhodopis is given a pair of red dancing slippers from her master as she loves dancing, but she is unable to attend the pharoah's ...
This versionof the Cinderella story tells the the story of two sisters who approach the king's search for a wife differently. While Manyara is more concerned with position and power, Nyasha is humble and kind-hearted. On their way to the city, Nyasha shares her food and gives gifts to the poor and hungry, while Manyara rushes by to meet the king. W...
This version is retold by Ai-Ling Louie in Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella story from China, and is based on a tale that datesback to the T'ang Dynasty, between 618 and 907 A.D. It is also said to be one of the oldest known version of the Cinderella story. Yeh-Shen is a young girl who befriends and shares a handful of rice with a magical fish in a nearby po...
Based on one of several folktales from Greece (another has the stepsisters eating their mother), in The Orphan by Anthony L. Manna and Soula Mitakidou, Cinderella is never referred toby name, but only as "Orphan." The young girl becomes an orphan even though her father is still alive. According to the book, "As people say in Greece, 'A child become...
Perhaps one of the most recognizable versions of Cinderella, Charles Perrault's "Cendrillon" is closestto the Disney production that we all know and love. He first included the tale in a collection of stories published in 1697. While most of the tale unfolds in the way most familiar to American audiences, this version ends much differently: After m...
Feb 1, 2024 · "In this Eastern European Jewish variant of the Cinderella story, the youngest daughter of a rabbi is sent away from home in disgrace, but thanks to the help of the prophet Elijah, marries the son of a renowned scholar and is reunited with her family. Includes words and music to a traditional Yiddish wedding song."
Cinderella. deals with a noble, middle class, or upper class female who has lost her riches and must reclaim her proper standing in the world. Jane Yolen states, Yet how ironic that this formula should be the terms on which “Cinderella” is acceptable to most Americans. “Cinderella” is not a story of rags to riches, but
