Twenty-eight Jewish nursery rhymes, jokes and riddles. Collection of poems

The "Word for Word" series publishes books that reveal to readers the richness and beauty of languages ​​of different nations, introduce folklore and literary traditions. The books form a taste and love for languages, help to feel the world literary context.
The new book in the series is dedicated to children's Jewish folklore and the richness of the Yiddish language. The famous writer, poet and translator Mikhail Davidovich Yasnov collected and processed 28 Jewish nursery rhymes, jokes and riddles. The book will be useful for introducing children to poetry for the first time, and is also suitable for a beginning reader. Simple, rhythmic lines are easy to remember and enrich vocabulary.
The collection "You Will Understand Me?" was illustrated by artist Sergei Viktorovich Lyubaev. He managed to recreate the warm atmosphere of a Jewish shtetl on the pages of the book.
Here's what the artist said about working on the book:
"Funny, sweet poems and jokes, illuminated by soft, lyrical humor. They are filled with self-irony, sadness, and children's philosophical reflections. Despite the external cheerfulness and optimism, they feel like they have a drama, which I deliberately intensified towards the end of the book. For this is the poetry of vanished shtetls, the poetry of the poetic language of Yiddish, which is disappearing, alas, the language of our Russian Jews, including ours. This was the main difficulty in the pictorial embodiment of Jewish children's folklore. Kind laughter through bitter tears..."

Recommended reader age: 2+

Artist: Sergey Lyubaev
Editor: E. Karpova
Year of release: 2020
Publisher: Nigma
Pages: 40
Dimensions: 257x255x9 mm
Cover type: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-5-4335-0769-2