Folktales of the Jews Volume 2

Release on 2006 | by Dan Ben-Amos

This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition

Author: Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827608306
Category: Fiction
Page: 624
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Folktales of the Jews Volume 2

Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second 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 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (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 Ashkenasic 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

Language: en
Pages: 624

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2

Authors: Dan Ben-Amos, Dov Noy

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Jewish Publication Society

Language: en
Pages: 844

Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

Authors: Dan Ben Amos

Categories: Literary Collections

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-01 - Publisher: Jewish Publication Society

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in

Language: en
Pages:

Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review

Authors: Dan Ben Amos

Categories: Jews

Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher:

Books about Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review

Language: en
Pages: 300

Inventing Jewish Ritual

Authors: Vanessa L. Ochs

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-01 - Publisher: Jewish Publication Society

Vanessa Ochs invites her readers to explore how Jewish practice can be more meaningful through renewing, reshaping, and even creating new rituals, such as naming ceremonies for welcoming baby girls, healing services, Miriam’s cup, mitzvah days, egalitarian wedding practices, and commitment ceremonies. We think of rituals—the patterned ways of doing