num_pages: 584
description: "The most comprehensive account of its subject now available, this impressive study lives up to the encyclopedic promise of its title." ―ChoiceThe 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.
language: English
title: The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning
titlecomplete: The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Folklore Studies in Translation)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Indiana University Press