Jewish Poland. Legnes of origin. Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: June 1, 2001| Author: Paul Wexler | Copyright Canadian Assosciation of Slavists Jun-Sep 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Haya Bar-Itzhak. Jewish Poland. Legends of origin. Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 195 pp.

This book, first published in 1996 in Hebrew, describes Jewish legends relating to the first settlement of Jews in the Polish lands. It is a disappointing treatment of an interesting, all too frequently neglected, topic. To the extent that historians have discussed myths of origin, they have tended to regard them with scepticism. Because legend...

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