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Nationally renoivned storyteller Syd Lieberman
presents dramatic interpretations at
Cantons Storytelling Festival.

some Nazis speaking near Lieberman's
house, and there's one called "Hospital
Special to the Jewish News
Night from Hell," which most every-
one will recognize from their own lives.
'm a bit of a frustrated rabbi,"
Most of all, though, Lieberman espous-
says internationally acclaimed
es the "laughter of truth." He, tells a sim-
storyteller, humorist and lecturer
ple, real-life story about taking his two
Syd Lieberman. This explains his
kids to the symphony, an evening that
mission to sneak a message into the
turned out to be a disaster. "It's funny
lively Jewish folk tales he shares with
because it's true," he says.
children across the country.
Storytel ler Syd
In July 1994, the Jewish
A Chicago resident and
Lieberm an spins Publication Society published
retired high-school English
teacher, Lieberman, 56, has cap- magical, heimish Lieberman's book The Wise
Shoemaker of Studena, as a
tivated children and adults with yarns fr om lift
experien
ces.
picture book for children. "Of
his storytelling for 18 years. He
course, it teaches a lesson,"
has appeared on television and
says the would-be rabbi. "It says, 'Don't
at major storytelling festivals around the
judge people by the way they look.'"
world, and was a host of American
His second book, Streets and Alleys:
Public Radio's Good Evening.
Stories with a Chicago Accent, is filled
On Saturday, Lieberman will join
with personal accounts from his life.
local talents Craig Roney and Corinne
In addition, Lieberman has made
Stavish at Canton's third annual
some
award-winning audio tapes,
Storytelling Festival, sponsored by
including The Intrepid Birdmen, a
Canton Project ARTS. The festival fea-
story produced for the Smithsonian's
tures a family performance at 1 p.m.
National Air and Space Museum
and an adult performance at 7:30 p.m.
about fighter pilots in World War I.
"My adult material stems mostly from
Birdmen story was an
"Making
my family," says Lieberman. "It has a
heimish feel. It's Jewish 'cause I'm Jewish."
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