"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.
| ISBN: | 9780253335838 |
| Publication date: | 16th April 2009 |
| Author: | Eli Yassif |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 584 pages |
| Genres: |
Judaism Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology) |