From title page: "Marvelous tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of his grandson, Rabbi Nachman, taken from Hebrew, Yiddish and German sources and retold by a master storyteller. For generations of Jewish readers, the legend of the Baal Shem Tov has been like The Arabian Nights.

Bookplate: Presented to the Library, Temple Beth Jacob, Concord, NH, Feb. 1962 by the Rabbi's Special Fund.