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Relief after Hardship

The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days

Ulrich Marzolph

A revisit of early texts that helped shape Middle Eastern folktales and narratives.

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Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814342770
$44.99
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Available February 2024
ISBN: 9780814351154
$24.99
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ISBN: 9780814342763

The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature

Vered Tohar

Recontextualizing early modern Musar folktales to reveal a new reading of premodern Jewish texts.

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Available November 2023
ISBN: 9780814347041
$94.99
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Available November 2023
ISBN: 9780814350829
$26.99
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Available November 2023
ISBN: 9780814347058

Israeli Salvage Poetics

Sheila E. Jelen

A compelling examination of the recuperation of eastern European culture in Israeli Hebrew-language literature.

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Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814348970
$94.99
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Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814348963
$34.99
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Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814348987

Sepher Yosippon

A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel

Translated and Introduced by Steven B. Bowman

The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349441
$99.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349434
$49.99
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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349458

The Angel and the Cholent

Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives

Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.

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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348857
$92.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348840
$36.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348864
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Jewish Cultural Studies

Simon J. Bronner

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

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Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814348284
$92.99
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Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814338759
$39.99
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Published: May 2021
ISBN: 9780814338766

Inviting Interruptions

Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Jennifer Orme

Fairy-tale texts and images that address contemporary issues in unsettling, intersectional, and wondrous ways.

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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814346990
$92.99
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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814347003
$32.99
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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814347010

Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales

Edited by Jack Zipes

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

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347867
$82.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347850
$32.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347874
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101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

Ulrich Marzolph

A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition.

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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347744
$99.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347737
$49.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347751

The Power of a Tale

Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives

Edited by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

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

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Published: November 2019
ISBN: 9780814342084
$64.99
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Published: November 2019
ISBN: 9780814342091

The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim

By Christian Bärmann
Translated and edited by Jack Zipes

The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim is an extraordinary discovery of a 1924 illustrated fairy-tale book by Christian Bärmann which will bring hope and joy to readers of all ages.

Hardback
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9780578458496
$25.00

The Legend of Safed

Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

Eli Yassif
Translated by Haim Watzman

Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century.

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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814341100
$84.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814346846
$32.99
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Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814341117

Overlooking the Border

Narratives of Divided Jerusalem

Dana Hercbergs

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

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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814341087
$79.99
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814344927
$31.99
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814341094

Field Recordings

Poems by Russell Brakefield

Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.

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Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814344965
$17.99
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Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814344972

On Jewish Folklore

Raphael Patai

Provides a rich harvest of Jewish customs and traditional beliefs, gathered from all over the world and from ancient to modern times.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344217
$24.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344200

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel

Haya Bar-Itzhak and Aliza Shenhar

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

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344521
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344538

Songquest

The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton

Edited by Joe Grimm

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

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344613
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344606

Tales in Context

Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France

Rella Kushelevsky
With a historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten

A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342718
$84.99
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Published: November 2017
ISBN: 9780814342725

The Pleasures of Metamorphosis

Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"

Lucy Fraser

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

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Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814342442
$34.99
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Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814342459

Mother Goose Refigured

A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales

Christine A. Jones

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.

Paperback
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814338926
$31.99
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Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814338933

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