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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... eyes. Readers may derive an aesthetic pleasure in reading or hearing them, consider them symbols of their ethnic or national identity, or learn from them about the culture in which they were a vital dimension of social life. But the ...
... eyes. Readers may derive an aesthetic pleasure in reading or hearing them, consider them symbols of their ethnic or national identity, or learn from them about the culture in which they were a vital dimension of social life. But the ...
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... eyes. When the sun appeared in the east, they began to recite the morning service at the earliest possible hour. All the worshipers were wrapped up in themselves, praying for atonement and forgiveness and that they be judged worthy of ...
... eyes. When the sun appeared in the east, they began to recite the morning service at the earliest possible hour. All the worshipers were wrapped up in themselves, praying for atonement and forgiveness and that they be judged worthy of ...
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... eyes in an unbroken stream, that he took pity on her. “Believe me, Sister,” he told her, “I'm more concerned about you than you are about yourself. But what can I do? The gates of mercy are closed. You must beseech God yourself and He ...
... eyes in an unbroken stream, that he took pity on her. “Believe me, Sister,” he told her, “I'm more concerned about you than you are about yourself. But what can I do? The gates of mercy are closed. You must beseech God yourself and He ...
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... eyes when she remembered that there was no hope, because her only source of assistance was her brother, who would not show her mercy after she had failed to heed his repeated warnings. In the end, though, she resolved to go visit her ...
... eyes when she remembered that there was no hope, because her only source of assistance was her brother, who would not show her mercy after she had failed to heed his repeated warnings. In the end, though, she resolved to go visit her ...
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... eyes, too, regained their sight. When he reached the age of thirteen, the men told him, “You have been living among us and have learned everything you have the capacity to master. Now you have reached manhood. Take these clothes and put ...
... eyes, too, regained their sight. When he reached the age of thirteen, the men told him, “You have been living among us and have learned everything you have the capacity to master. Now you have reached manhood. Take these clothes and put ...
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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