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Sources of the stories: a number of the Chelm stories are available in English in I. Howe and E. Greenberg’s A Treasury of Yiddish Stories and Nathan Ausubel’s A Treasury of Jewish Humor. Traditional Chelm tales, versions of the tales and newly invented Chelm tales are available in S. Simon’s The Wise Men of Helm and S. Tenenbaum’s The Wise Men of Chelm. I.B. Singer has done his own retelling and reinterpreting of the tales in lovely children’s books, The Fools of Chelm and Their History and When Schlemiel Went To Warsaw.
S. L.