Folklore

Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches.

A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.

English translations of over fifty stories from the Israel Folktale Archives.

An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem’s social history.

The field notes of a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs, stories, and cultural history of Great Lakes sailors in the 1930s.

A unique selection of folk narratives of Moroccan Jews in Israel.

Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure.

Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.

The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile’s monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634–1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.