He is a witty fellow with a lot of patience and humor. The first story involves the town of Klaneshtetl’s Rabbi, Rabbi Mark. But one does not really need to be affiliated to any religion to appreciate these poignant stories.Īnother of his books is “You have a minute, Lord?”) It is doubtful whether many such writers would appeal to both institutions. One is by the “Jewish Echo” and the other by the “Church of England Newspaper”. It says a lot for his appeal that there are two reviews printed on this book. He also retold dozens of Old Testament and Apocrypha stories in Bible Stories (1968). His best known book, also a television series, is The Book of Witnesses (1971), in which he turned the Gospels into a series of monologues. He was also well known for his story-telling skills, particularly with regard to reinterpreting the Bible. His best known television roles were the hen-pecked husband Alf Larkin in The Larkins, first broadcast in 1958, and a Jewish furniture maker in A Little Big Business. Kossoff started working in light entertainment on British television in the years following World War II. In its obituary of David Kossoff, The Scotsman wrote how he was “a man of deep convictions and proud of his Jewish origins”. (Kossoff was born in London, the youngest of three children, to poor Russian Jewish immigrant parents. Nicely told, though Kossof ignores the rules of English grammar. Contains many stories which would be useful as sermon-starters. Delightful collection of Jewish stories set in a 19th Cent Polish village.
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