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The Hebrew folktale : history, genre, meaning
Sipur ha-ʻam ha-ʻIvri. English
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- Creator
- Eli Yassif ; translated from Hebrew by Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum
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- English
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999]
- ©1999
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- xx, 560 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0253002621, 9780253335838, 0253335833, 9780253002624
- OCLC
- ocm40813262, ocn607390983
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [461]-541) and index.
- Introduction: Jewish culture and the Hebrew folktale -- The biblical period: the folktale as sacred history -- The second temple period: the casting of narrative patterns -- The folktale in the Rabbinic period: between folk culture and Rabbinic literature -- The Middle Ages: external perils and internal tensions -- The later generations: the folktale in confrontation with a changing world