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The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Folklore Studies in Translation) (Hardcover)
by Eli Yassif (Author), Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum (Translator) "Varied and complex motives underlie the need for a comprehensive history of the Hebrew folktale..." (more)
Key Phrases: narrating society, folk novella, demonological tales, Middle Ages, Second Temple, Ba'al Shem Tov (more...)
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Book Description
The Hebrew Folktale seeks to find and define the folk-elements of Jewish culture. Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, Yassif describes the major trends--structural, thematic, functional--of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture.

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"Eli Yassif describes the major trends - structural, thematic, functional - of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture and shows the social function and cultural meaning of the Hebrew folktale. Analyzing texts in their historical and cultural context, he examines the transmission of the Hebrew folktale and looks at the interaction between texts from different times and contexts."--BOOK JACKET.

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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press (November 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0253335833
  • ISBN-13: 978-0253335838
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
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narrating society, folk novella, demonological tales, international folk literature, associative accumulation, hasidic narrative, martyrological tales, folk strata, rabbinic aggadah, magic fairytale, dybbuk tales, gentile regime, story groupings, constituent tales, hagiographical cycle, hasidic zaddikim, hidden zaddik, aggadic tales, demonic tale, biographical legends, aggadic literature, rabbinic period, child taken captive, patriarchal tales, hagiographical tales
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Middle Ages, Second Temple, Ba'al Shem Tov, Rabbi Akiva, Judah the Pious, Lamentations Rabbah, Bar Hana, Babylonian Talmud, Bar Kokhba, Joshua ben Hananiah, Joshua ben Levi, Genesis Rabbah, Sefer Hasidim, Baba Sali, King Solomon, Palestinian Talmud, Rabbi Joshua, Pinhas ben Yair, Scroll of Esther, Tur Malka, Ben Sira, Hanina ben Dosa, Midrash of the Ten Commandments, Near East, Rabbi Johanan
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