Shlemazel’s name in Yiddish means “no luck”, so when his friends tell him that he is lazy, he protests saying, “I am not lazy. I’m unlucky.” One Day, Moshke, the tinker of the village and a hardworking man, decides to show the other villagers that Shlemazel is indeed lucky and able to be hardworking. Moshke presents Shlemazel with the “amazing, remarkable spoon of Pohost”, telling him that it is the luckiest spoon that brings blessings to all that use it. Using the spoon to look for luck, Sh More...

Hear an interview about Shlemazel and the Remarkable Spoon of Pohost with author Ann Redisch Stampler on The Book of Life podcast's January 2007 episode at www.jewishbooks.blogspot.com.