The Hebrew Folktale
Subtitle: History, Genre, Meaning (Folklore Studies in Translation)
Contributors: Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum (Translator)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780253335838
Subjects: Folklore; Literary studies: general; Oral And Folk Literature; Social Science; Hebrew; Sociology; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Folklore & Mythology; Judaism - General; Folk literature, Hebrew; History and criticism; Jewish folk literature; Jews; Tales
First sentence: Varied and complex motives underlie the need for a comprehensive history of the Hebrew folktale.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.