A Calendar of Northern Fables

by John T. Syrtash

Overview

A Calendar of Northern Fables is a nostalgic collection of short stories about Jewish immigrants who settled in North America after the War. It’s also about their children and grandchildren. Based in Toronto, Canada the stories follow many of the Jewish Holidays and poke gentle fun at the lifestyle, rituals and mythologies brought over from the old country. Meet Mendel, the much loved Pharmacist and find out why he feels compelled to sin right before Yom Kippur, the holiday of atonement. The book gives you a rare glimpse inside the homes and synagogues of observant Jews and explains some of the customs followed by this close knit community. What is the reason for the knotted strings dangling from the hips of religious men? How do observant young people date without ever touching each other?
A Calendar of Northern Fables is a charming and humorous look at Jewish immigrants in the 1950s and the lives of their descendants today.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153086545
Publisher:	John T. Syrtash
Publication date:	06/19/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	407 KB

About the Author

John T. Syrtash was born in Budapest, Hungary, the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors, who immigrated with his parents to Toronto Canada in 1957. He was a student of English literature with Northrop Frye at the University of Toronto from 1972-76. He has published innumerable legal articles after becoming a family law lawyer in 1981 for several publications over the past 35 years, including the Canadian Jewish News, the National Post, and Sun Media and has often appeared on TV and radio as a legal commentator. In 1992 he published Religion and Culture in Canadian Family Law (Butterworths) and has been the editor of a weekly digest of Canadian family law cases called the Syrtash Family Law Netletter for LexisNexis for over 20 years.
He is currently counsel to the law firm of Garfin Zeidenberg LLP, Toronto, Canada, practicing as one of Canada’s most senior family law trial lawyers and is also a mediator and arbitrator.
Mr. Syrtash is President of Canada’s "Spousal Support Database", a company he co-founded. In 1989 Mr. Syrtash was awarded the B’nai Brith Community Award for having been instrumental in reforming Canada’s family laws. His legislation helps Jewish and Shiite women to obtain a religious divorce from their husbands when such men refuse to grant their consent without imposing onerous conditions. He has three children, a grandchild and is devoted to the woman he loves.
A Calendar of Northern Fables is his first work of fiction