Author: Laurence TuttiettPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Counsels of a Godfather
Author: Laurence TuttiettFolktales of the Jews, Volume 1
Author: Dov NoyPublisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827608292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion begins the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the first volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The 71 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives, Named in Honor of Dov Noy, The University of Haifa (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Sephardic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.
The threshold of life, illustrations and lessons for the encouragement and counsel of youth
Author: William Henry Davenport AdamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Plain Words to Children
Author: William Walsham How (successively Bishop of Bedford and of Wakefield.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Aids to the Study of the Books of Samuel
Author: Edwin HobsonOrganized Crime in Sports (racing).
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on CrimePublisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 2962
Book Description
A Dictionary of Hymnology
Author: John JulianA New and Complete Concordance Or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases, & Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare with a Supplementary Concordance to the Poems
Author: John BartlettA Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Author: John BartlettPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1915
Book Description
A complete concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. There is also a supplementary concordance to the poems. This is an essential reference work for all students and readers of Shakespeare.
Author: John Bartlett