Tales from Jewish Tradition: Wise Women, Rebbes, Demons and Shmendriks
Wed, Jul 29
|Highland Park Public Library
Award winning professional storyteller Susan Stone will share Jewish folktales and Chasidic tales for adults, with humor, intention, and pathos, informed by her theatre training.


Time & Location
Jul 29, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035, USA
About the Event
PLEASE NOTE, The Highland Park Public Library will handle registration for this event. If you fill out the registration form below we will send you a reminder to register through the library when it becomes available.
Join award winning professional storyteller, Susan Stone, as she shares stories from many sources; Jewish folktales, Midrash, Chasidic tales, as well as her life, all given interesting and lively interpretations, lifted off the page with insight and skill, and put back into true oral tradition. Funny, poignant, enlightening….Susan's personal narratives weave throughout the program. When Susan tells tales she opens her heart and, in turn, will open yours
National Jewish Book Award winner, renowned folklorist Professor Howard Schwartz has said…. "In her hands the tales, no matter how ancient, come hauntingly alive where every tale can be heard as if for the first time".