The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning

From: Western Folklore | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Oring, Elliott | Copyright information

The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning. By Eli Yassif. Translated by Jaqueline S. Teitelbaum. Foreword by Dan Ben-Amos. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. xx + 561, acknowledgements, notes, index, $59.95 cloth.)

The Hebrew Folktale is the magnum opus of Eli Yassif, Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Folklore at Tel Aviv University. In it, Yassif attempts to outline the course of the folktale in Hebrew culture through the ages. he traces the folktale as a par...

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