Folktales of the Jews, Volume 1: Tales from the Sephardic DispersionJewish Publication Society, 03.09.2006 - 722 Seiten Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion begins the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the first volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The 71 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives, Named in Honor of Dov Noy, The University of Haifa (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Sephardic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. |
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... historical traditions. Allusions and references to biblical, talmudic, and medieval themes, figures, and ideas are commonplace in these stories. The interdependence of the oral and written traditions has been a hallmark of Jewish ...
... historical traditions. Allusions and references to biblical, talmudic, and medieval themes, figures, and ideas are commonplace in these stories. The interdependence of the oral and written traditions has been a hallmark of Jewish ...
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... historical and cultural contexts, each of which contributes to the totality of Jewish culture and literature, but all of which are distinctly bound by historical context and circumstance. The experience of exile—living as an ethnic ...
... historical and cultural contexts, each of which contributes to the totality of Jewish culture and literature, but all of which are distinctly bound by historical context and circumstance. The experience of exile—living as an ethnic ...
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... historical periods, and from diverse ethnic groups and social classes, the literary standards of contemporary critics and readers. With such a selection, Bialik purports to establish the literary canon of Jewish tradition for the modern ...
... historical periods, and from diverse ethnic groups and social classes, the literary standards of contemporary critics and readers. With such a selection, Bialik purports to establish the literary canon of Jewish tradition for the modern ...
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... historical process that merits attention and documentation. Occasionally, we can recognize among the tales in the IFA and in these volumes familiar narratives that earlier narrators or modern writers have embellished. Their inclusion in ...
... historical process that merits attention and documentation. Occasionally, we can recognize among the tales in the IFA and in these volumes familiar narratives that earlier narrators or modern writers have embellished. Their inclusion in ...
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... historical perspectives. No doubt, there are many more equally important tales that could have illuminated additional as- pects of Jewish traditional narratives. With the present volumes, readers may gain a glimpse into the dynamic ...
... historical perspectives. No doubt, there are many more equally important tales that could have illuminated additional as- pects of Jewish traditional narratives. With the present volumes, readers may gain a glimpse into the dynamic ...
Inhalt
Moral Tales | 197 |
Folktales | 227 |
Humorous Tales | 527 |
Abbreviations | 593 |
Narrators | 596 |
Collectors | 604 |
Bibliography | 610 |
Motif Indexes | 676 |
Tale Type Indexes | 703 |
General Index | 716 |
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