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- Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Jewish Publication Society
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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
Table of Contents
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- Front Matter
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction to Volume 2
- pp. xvii-xxxix
- A Note on the Commentaries
- pp. xli-xlii
- Tales of the Supernatural
- 2. The Kaddish (IFA 18159)
- pp. 12-20
- 6. The Treasure (IFA 8256)
- pp. 48-52
- Hasidic Tales
- 8. Rebbe Shmelke’s Matzos (IFA 237)
- pp. 58-63
- 9. The Unforgotten Melody (IFA 5794)
- pp. 64-69
- 10. The Power of a Melody (IFA 5793)
- pp. 70-76
- 11. The Happy Man (IFA 12214)
- pp. 76-80
- 15. Rebbe Pinhas’l of Korets (IFA 9797)
- pp. 109-117
- Holocaust Tales
- Historical Tales
- Tales between Jews and Non-Jews
- 23. The Shofar of the Messiah (IFA 6306)
- pp. 168-185
- 24. The Redemption of Captives (IFA 4813)
- pp. 186-191
- 25. The Long “H.ad Gadya” (IFA 7211)
- pp. 192-201
- 26. The Two Friends (IFA 3222)
- pp. 202-206
- 27. The Gentile Beggar’s Secret (IFA 4541)
- pp. 207-213
- Moral Tales
- 33. With the Rebbe’s Power (IFA 19892)
- pp. 250-254
- 38. God Will Help (IFA 18130)
- pp. 278-281
- 39. The Poisoned Cake (IFA 551)
- pp. 282-287
- 42. Reb Zusha the Shoemaker (IFA 19949)
- pp. 313-316
- 45. The Neighbor in Paradise (IFA 5377)
- pp. 334-337
- 46. A Trial in Heaven (IFA 19585)
- pp. 338-341
- 47. White Flowers, Red Flowers (IFA 18156)
- pp. 342-346
- Folktales
- 48. The King’s Three Daughters (IFA 7202)
- pp. 348-355
- 50. The Three Young Men (IFA 6098)
- pp. 363-371
- 51. The Poor Man Who Became Rich (IFA 8021)
- pp. 372-380
- 52. The Stolen Ring (IFA 7812)
- pp. 381-386
- Humorous Tales
- 55. I Came From M
- pp. 404-409
- 56. The Jewish Innkeeper (IFA 4815)
- pp. 410-417
- 57. Little Fish, Big Fish (IFA 8889)
- pp. 418-421
- 58. Three Complaints (IFA 8794)
- pp. 422-426
- 59. The Elderly Cantor (IFA 6655)
- pp. 427-430
- 63. A Visit by Elijah the Prophet (IFA 3955)
- pp. 446-451
- 67. Who Had It Better? (IFA 21022)
- pp. 473-476
- 69. I Have No Place to Rest (IFA 18592)
- pp. 480-482
- 70. Stalin Tests His “Friends” (IFA 14263)
- pp. 483-485
- 71. Communism and Religion (IFA14264)
- pp. 486-488
- Abbreviations
- pp. 489-492
- Collectors
- pp. 505-511
- Bibliography
- pp. 512-588
- Motif Indexes
- pp. 589-607
- Tale Type Indexes
- pp. 608-618
- General Index
- pp. 619-624
Additional Information
ISBN
9780827610460
Related ISBN(s)
9780827608306
MARC Record
OCLC
794928097
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No