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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2022) through current issueLatest Articles: Jewish Folklore and EthnologyTWOProject MUSE®Jewish Folklore and Ethnology2833-258X2833-2563Latest articles in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Holy Trash" and the Tears of the Deceased: The Emotional Role of Genizot for the Jewish Communities of Central Europe
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972218
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In 1904, a review of Moritz Steinschneider's book Die arabische Literatur der Juden (The Arabic Literature of the Jews) by Hartwig Hirschfeld, a professor of Semitic studies in London, triggered a dispute between the two scholars that was to last for several years (see Hirschfeld 1904; Steinschneider 1902; see also Reif 2010, 66–68). The subject of the dispute was the judgment of the significance of genizot in the Muslim-Jewish cultural area. Hirschfeld argued that the sources considered in Steinschneider's work did not take all relevant texts into account, as a large proportion of them were considered lost but had been preserved in genizot. For this reason, according to Hirschfeld, all the text genres found in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/843/image/coversmall"Holy Trash" and the Tears of the Deceased: The Emotional Role of Genizot for the Jewish Communities of Central Europe2025-10-17text/htmlen-US"Holy Trash" and the Tears of the Deceased: The Emotional Role of Genizot for the Jewish Communities of Central Europe2025-10-172025TWOProject MUSE®1084192026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-17The Uncanny, The October 7 Massacre, and the Folktale "The Wolf and the Kids" (ATU 123)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972219
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In 1919, Freud cited contemporary aesthetics in his paper on the psycho-dynamic basis of the frightening, uncanny feeling arising in certain situations, "atmospheres," or objects/characters. He stressed the ambivalence of familiar and unfamiliar feelings, intertwined in the same linguistic expressions and, through psychoanalytic insight, showed that uncanniness depends on an unconscious reminder of something people once knew but later repressed. It comprises an extraneousness of what is, in reality, too familiar. It is noteworthy that all the examples Freud employed in his paper were drawn from literary content. His evidence aligns with the significance he ascribed to literature in the exploration of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/843/image/coversmallThe Uncanny, The October 7 Massacre, and the Folktale "The Wolf and the Kids" (ATU 123)2025-10-17text/htmlen-USThe Uncanny, The October 7 Massacre, and the Folktale "The Wolf and the Kids" (ATU 123)2025-10-172025TWOProject MUSE®865732026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-17Hiding from Kohanim: Covering Hands, Faces, and Children with a Tallit During the Priestly Blessing
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972220
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The priestly blessing Birkat Kohamin is recited during the repetition of the Amida, when Kohanim come to the front of the synagogue and face the congregation to recite the blessing as found in Numbers 6:22–27: "The Lord spoke to Moses: Speak to Aaron and his sons—Thus shall you bless the people of Israel; say to them: The Lord bless you and keep you! The Lord deal kindly and graciously with you; the Lord bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace! Thus they shall link My name with the people of Israel, and I will bless them." This is done daily in Israel and outside of Israel in many Sephardic traditions. Outside of Israel in the Ashkenazic tradition it is only done on festivals and Yom Kippur. For various
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/843/image/coversmallHiding from Kohanim: Covering Hands, Faces, and Children with a Tallit During the Priestly Blessing2025-10-17text/htmlen-USHiding from Kohanim: Covering Hands, Faces, and Children with a Tallit During the Priestly Blessing2025-10-172025TWOProject MUSE®734092026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-17From a Shtetl House to an Urban Apartment: The Soviet Jewish Home Negotiated, Transformed, and Reimagined
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972221
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While in the Western analytical tradition the "relative paucity of materials on Jewish home life" may be explained according to folklorist Simon J. Bronner by the prevailing concentration on "Judaism as a tradition centered in the synagogue" (Bronner 2010, 31), in the Soviet case the home has been foregrounded as a primary locus of investigation due to the drastically diminished public expression of Jewishness. In this essay I demonstrate that the analytic focus on the Soviet Jewish home can help advance understanding of the Soviet Jewish experiences more broadly, the complex and non-homogenous structure of the Soviet Jewish population, the various identity resources that Soviet Jews mobilized to preserve their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/843/image/coversmallFrom a Shtetl House to an Urban Apartment: The Soviet Jewish Home Negotiated, Transformed, and Reimagined2025-10-17text/htmlen-USFrom a Shtetl House to an Urban Apartment: The Soviet Jewish Home Negotiated, Transformed, and Reimagined2025-10-172025TWOProject MUSE®1980162026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-17Note on Transliteration
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972223
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Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (JFE) encourages translations to English wherever possible of texts in languages that do not use the Latin alphabet. When quotation of phrases and terms of such languages is useful to readers, JFE follows practices of transliteration using English orthography. In most cases, JFE renders personal and geographic names in their most familiar romanized forms. As a publication with an international scope and audience, JFE uses transliteration to maintain flow in the essays and make the pronunciation of languages accessible for readers of English. In addition to serving as a guide to citation and style, the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), eighteenth edition, is JFE's basic reference for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/843/image/coversmallNote on Transliteration2025-10-17text/htmlen-USNote on Transliteration2025-10-172025TWOProject MUSE®35282026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-17