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"The popular literature that evolved in Jewish societies over a period of a thousand years is the source of this rich treasury of more than one thousand Jewish folktales collected by Micha Joseph Bin Gorion [1865-1921] ... These were stories of biblical events and heroes, the lives of rabbis, saints, and scholars, deeds of righteous and holy men, acts of the Jewish martyrs, and the miracles of Elijah the prophet. ... Carefully selected on the basis...
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"Eli Yassif describes the major trends - structural, thematic, functional - of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture and shows the social function and cultural meaning of the Hebrew folktale. Analyzing texts in their historical and cultural context, he examines the transmission of the Hebrew folktale and looks at the interaction between texts from different times and contexts."--Jacket.
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"Peninnah's World is the biography-in-stories of the iconic Jewish storyteller and folklorist Peninnah Schram. In vivid scenes, it dramatizes Schram's trajectory from brilliant daughter of Orthodox immigrant parents in New London, Connecticut, to acclaimed performer, teacher, scholar and colleague of luminaries including Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Molly Picon"--
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