The Hebrew Folktale History, Genre, Meaning [Hardcover]

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 trendsstructural, thematic, and functionalof folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture.

Eli Yassif is Professor of Hebrew literature and Jewish Folklore at Tel-Aviv University He is the author of many books including The Study of Jewish Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography, The Golem of Prague, and The Knight, the Demon and the Virgin: An Anthology of Hebrew Stories from the Middle Ages.