The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning

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.

Author: Eli Yassif
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 04/16/2009
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.14lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.52w x 1.78d
ISBN: 9780253335838
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner

About the Author

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.