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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 - Tales from Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 - Tales from Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Folktales of the Jews
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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. The second volume in a literary
landmark Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from
Ashkenazic 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
Ashkenazic 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 series is a monument to a rich but
vanishing oral tradition.
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