Gitl

"No one I knew ever called her Gitl," Mrs. Berlin said.

Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991

"No one I knew ever called her Gitl," Mrs. Berlin said.

Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991

Indeed, the book begins with the grotesque morality plays of Gitl bas Yuda Leyb, a remarkable early 18th-century woman writer whose sense of God's mercy would have made Flannery O'Connor blush: the morals of her anecdotes always seemed to boil down to the need to trust in God, because everything good can be destroyed at a moment's notice.

Alex Remington: Radiant Days, Haunted Nights: Yiddish Folktales Are Like the Brothers Grimm With Rabbis 2009

I'd add Gitl, Bernstein, and even the loutish husband Jake, from Hester Street.

Top 10 Jewish Movie Characters. Ann Althouse 2009

For the first time she realized that s not really know how Eve became Gitl, or if Gid had bee grandmother's real name.

Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991

Indeed, the book begins with the grotesque morality plays of Gitl bas Yuda Leyb, a remarkable early 18th-century woman writer whose sense of God's mercy would have made Flannery O'Connor blush: the morals of her anecdotes always seemed to boil down to the need to trust in God, because everything good can be destroyed at a moment's notice.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009