Hebrew Folktale - History, Genre, Meaning

Informationen zum Autor Eli Yassif is Professor of Hebrew literature and Jewish Folklore at Tel-Aviv University He is the author of many books including The Study of Jewish Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography, The Golem of Prague, and The Knight, the Demon and the Virgin: An Anthology of Hebrew Stories from the Middle Ages. Klappentext Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, Yassif describes the major trends-structural, thematic, and functional-of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture. Zusammenfassung Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, this title describes the major trends - structural, thematic, functional - of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture. It presents an overview of the Hebrew folktale, and examines the transmission of the folktale from period to period.

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• Authors: Eli Yassif, Yassif Eli
• Assisted by: Foreword by Dan Ben-Amos Translated from (Editor), Eli Yassif (Editor), Jacqueline Teitelbaum (Translation), Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780253335838
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33583-8
• No. of pages: 584
• Series: Folklore Studies in Translatio; Folklore Studies in Translatio; Folklore Studies in Translation,
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore