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The Hebrew Folktale »
Authors: Eli Yassif, Jacqueline Teitelbaum (Translator), Dan Ben-Amos
ISBN-13: 9780253335838, ISBN-10: 0253335833
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: October 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Eli Yassif
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.
Book Synopsis
"The most comprehensive account of its subject now available, this impressive study lives up to the encyclopedic promise of its title." — Choice
The Hebrew Folktale seeks to find and define the folk-elements of Jewish culture. 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.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction: Jewish Culture and the Hebrew Folktale | 1 |
| 2 | The Biblical Period: The Folktale as Sacred History | 8 |
| A | The Myth | 10 |
| B | The Legend | 15 |
| C | The Fable | 23 |
| D | The Novella | 27 |
| E | The Story Cycle | 30 |
| F | Developments and Transitions | 33 |
| 3 | The Second Temple Period: The Casting of Narrative Patterns | 38 |
| A | Narrative in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: Continuation and Renewal | 38 |
| B | The Historical Legend | 40 |
| C | The Expanded Biblical Tale | 46 |
| D | The Martyrological Narrative as Folktale | 52 |
| E | The Hagiographical Cycle | 57 |
| F | The Novella and Wisdom Tale | 61 |
| G | The Fairytale | 64 |
| H | The Contribution to the History of Hebrew Narrative | 67 |
| 4 | The Folktale in the Rabbinic Period: Between Folk Culture and Rabbinic Literature | 70 |
| A | Introduction | 70 |
| B | Performance Events | 72 |
| C | The Expanded Biblical Story | 79 |
| D | Narrative Traditions from the Second Temple Period | 89 |
| E | The Biographical Legend | 106 |
| F | The Exemplum | 120 |
| G | The Historical Legend | 132 |
| H | Tales of Magic and Demonology | 144 |
| I | The Comic Tale | 166 |
| J | Parables and Fables | 191 |
| K | The Story Cycle | 209 |
| 5 | The Middle Ages: External Perils and Internal Tensions | 245 |
| A | Introduction | 245 |
| B | Rabbinic Aggadah as Folk Narrative | 250 |
| C | Tales from International Folklore | 265 |
| D | The Exemplum | 283 |
| E | The Historical Legend | 297 |
| F | The Saint's Legend | 321 |
| G | The Novella and Gender Stories | 343 |
| H | Tales of Magic and Demonology | 351 |
| 6 | The Later Generations: The Folktale in Confrontation with a Changing World | 371 |
| A | The Hasidic Story as Folk Literature | 371 |
| B | Legends of the Saints and Israeli Society | 407 |
| C | "Return to the Faith" Stories: Religious Rhetoric in a Secular World | 429 |
| Notes | 461 | |
| Abbreviations Used in the Notes | 543 | |
| Index | 549 |
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