Jewish storytelling festival at YU

Peninnah Schram Courtesy YU

Yeshiva University’s Center for Israel Studies will present “Folktales of Israel: A Festival of Jewish Storytelling” Nov. 6. The festival, co-sponsored by Stern College for Women, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the American Zionist Movement, is free and will be at the YU Museum, Center for Jewish History, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The festival honors Peninnah Schram, Jewish folklorist and storyteller who is professor of speech and drama at YU. Schram received the Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educator in 1995 and the National Storytelling Network’s 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award “for sustained and exemplary contributions to storytelling in America.”

“Folktales of Israel brings together scholars and performers, students and rabbis to celebrate all that is good about Israel,” said Steven Fine, director of the Center for Israel Studies and professor of Jewish history. “At this moment in Israel’s history, telling Israel’s stories is an act of hope and promise.”

Visit www.yu.edu/cis.