Abstract
In this article, the authors show that four different genres of Ashkenazi literature, three in Yiddish, and one in Hebrew, share a common trait. All couch a socially troubling story in a pious frame—front and back. These socially troubling stories—apparently a reflection of social reality—concern women drinking in public, homosexuality, sexual abuse in the family and parental control over daughters that guaranteed their unhappiness. It is suggested that these stories need to be seen in the context of non‐Jewish European stories that surrounded them and preceded them, and that these stories constitute the beginnings of modern conscious storytelling in Ashkenazi society.
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