Research Catalog

Title

The power of a tale : stories from the Israel Folktale Archives / edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg.

Author

Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah,

Publication

• Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Pintel-Ginsberg, Idit,

Description

xxiii, 431 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

"The stories here come from twenty-six different ethnic communities, according to the IFA classification. There are twenty-two Jewish communities: Afghanistan (2 stories), Belarus (2), Bulgaria (1), Ethiopia (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (2), Iraq (3), Iraqi Kurdistan (1), Israel (2), Israel, Ashkenazi (3), Israel, Sephardi (2), Lithuania (1), Morocco (7), Poland (6), Romania (2), Tunisia (2), Yemen (2), and Yogoslavia, Sephardi (1). There are also four non-Jewish groups: Bedouin (2), Druze (2), Muslim Arab (4), and Christian Arab (1)."--The Introduction, pages xxix-xxx.

Series Statement

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Uniform Title

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.

Subjects

• Israel
• Ethnic relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology
• Israel > Ethnic relations > Folklore
• Folk tales
• Jewish folklore and anthropology
• Folklore

Genre/Form

• Folk tales.
• Folklore.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English.

Contents

The bride and the demon (IFA 335) -- Stone restrains redemption (IFA 489) -- The old synagogue in Prague (IFA 502) -- Stone in the temple originated from Sinai (IFA 553) -- The Hanukkah miracle: Hannah and her seven sons (IFA 1724) -- The girl and the Cossack (IFA 1935) -- Death as a godfather (IFA 1937) -- The dance of the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria) (IFA 3590) -- The miserly Mohel and the demons (IFA 5151) -- The cat demon (IFA 8902) -- The story about Dobush (IFA 5167) -- Rabbi Ephrayim Elnekave and the lion (IFA 6432) -- The princess in the wooden body (IFA 6859) -- The king who trusted his kingdom to his daughters (IFA 7202) -- The six sisters from the mountains (IFA 7370) -- The wise sheikh and the menorah (IFA 8271) -- The rich miser (IFA 9400) -- Serah bat Asher (IFA 9524) -- The girl and the dragons (IFA 10106) -- The king and the old woodcutter (IFA 10300) -- The witch (El Beda) (IFA 11575) -- How a bottomless bucket saved a community (IFA 11739) -- The measure of a woman is two, the measure of a man is one (IFA 11911) -- The revelation of the Zaddik Rabbi David U'Moshe (IFA 12337) -- There is not a living soul (IFA 12434) -- Rise early and harvest gold (IFA 12443) -- Investors' encouragement (IFA 21158) -- The girl who emerged out of an egg (IFA 13876) -- The salvation of the Jews of Arbil during the Rashid 'Ali Riots, 1941 (IFA 13921) -- The "catfish" fire in Chelm (IFA 14232) -- Wisdom of a man and slyness of a woman (IFA 15825) -- Mother's gift is better than father's gift (IFA 16131) -- The shoe (IFA 16132) -- Between the sun and the moon (IFA 17414) -- The widow and her daughter (IFA 17478) -- The boy who was kidnapped and brought to Russia (IFA 18140) -- The impoverished and wandering Jewish tenant (IFA 18800) -- The queen and the fish (IFA 20959) -- The pharmacist's burial (IFA 21021) -- The wise woman (IFA 21307) -- Water for the guest (IFA 21882) -- The maiden and the guest (IFA 21883) -- The grave of Sheikh Jamal il-Din (IFA 21884) -- Tar-Shiha (IFA 21885) -- Do not bequeath, for you will be poor (IFA 22649) -- The broken oath (IFA 22832) -- The gate to the Garden of Eden is beneath a woman's feet (IFA 22833) -- Killing the snake (IFA 22849) -- The flying camel of the Levant Fair (IFA 22876) -- Honor your guest, though he may be a beggar (IFA 22913) -- Al-Jazzar and Muhammad al-Qablan (IFA 22924) -- The young men who drank arak at Al-Khader (IFA 23000) -- The road on the holiday of Shavuot (IFA 23011).

Call Number

JFF 20-828

ISBN

• 9780814342084
• 0814342086

Author

Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah, editor.

Title

The power of a tale : stories from the Israel Folktale Archives / edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg.

Publisher

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Text in English.

Added Author

Pintel-Ginsberg, Idit, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 20-828