Title: Israeli folk narratives : settlement, immigration, ethnicity /
Authors: Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Jews Israel Folklore.; Kibbutzim Folklore.; Immigrants Israel Folklore.; Jews, Moroccan Israel Folklore.; Legends Israel.; Legends Israel History and criticism.; Galilee (Israel) Rural conditions Folklore.; Israel Emigration and immigration Folklore.; Israel Ethnic relations Folklore.
Contents: Forest of thorns into a flourishing garden : local legends and cultural interpretation -- Processes of change in the kibbutz as reflected in local legends -- The camouflaged plums : sweet versus bitter in legends of absorption of Polish Jews -- The legend of Yemenite Jews as an expression of immigration and absorption -- Old Jewish Moroccan women relate in an Israeli context -- Ethnic nonverbal components in the Jewish Moroccan saints' legend.