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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... returned home. The boy lived with his uncle in his world of darkness; his parents were not there, and the members of the household remained aloof and paid him no attention. Time passed. One night, very late, his uncle came and sat down ...
... returned home. The boy lived with his uncle in his world of darkness; his parents were not there, and the members of the household remained aloof and paid him no attention. Time passed. One night, very late, his uncle came and sat down ...
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... returned home. But the groom's mother remained there and lived with her son, contented and gratified, until the day she died. So may God grant us the merit to raise our sons to learn Torah, to stand under the wedding canopy, and to ...
... returned home. But the groom's mother remained there and lived with her son, contented and gratified, until the day she died. So may God grant us the merit to raise our sons to learn Torah, to stand under the wedding canopy, and to ...
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... returning to the city, they [the authorities] told the king that it was all a lie: There were no Torah scrolls inside and ... returned to the city, they asked, “Who was it who told us that? It's a fact that the Torah scrolls are in their ...
... returning to the city, they [the authorities] told the king that it was all a lie: There were no Torah scrolls inside and ... returned to the city, they asked, “Who was it who told us that? It's a fact that the Torah scrolls are in their ...
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... returned to that house, what did they see? There was an old woman lying on the floor—the plague had begun. The community leader was really terrified. “You see,” he said, “how God worked wonders and miracles for us! We would all have ...
... returned to that house, what did they see? There was an old woman lying on the floor—the plague had begun. The community leader was really terrified. “You see,” he said, “how God worked wonders and miracles for us! We would all have ...
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... returned to Jerusalem in peace. Raphael Meyuhas had worked miracles—the miracle of the plague and the miracle of the highwaymen. He brought the money to the pasha. From then on they lived together with the Arabs happily. That situation ...
... returned to Jerusalem in peace. Raphael Meyuhas had worked miracles—the miracle of the plague and the miracle of the highwaymen. He brought the money to the pasha. From then on they lived together with the Arabs happily. That situation ...
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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