Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales (Paperback, New ed)

In this magical collection, Howard Schwartz has gathered together and retold thirty-six Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from sources as diverse as Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, the stories are characterized by their infusion of traditional Jewish characters with the archetypal forms found in all fairy tales, or by their treatment of Jewish religious themes. The book combines the playfulness of fairy tales that will be loved by children with the author's depth of knowledge of the historical origins of the tales. Throughout one can find the quests and riddles of the traditional fairy tale along with the divine intervention that characterizes the Jewish fairy tale.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1994
First published:	October 1994
Authors:	Howard Schwartz (Associate Professor of English)
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-509200-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Myth & legend told as fiction Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	0-19-509200-7
Barcode:	9780195092004

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