By Dan Ben-Amos, Dov Noy, Ellen Frankel, Ira Shander, Leonard Schramm
ISBN-10: 0827608292
ISBN-13: 9780827608290
ISBN-10: 0827610459
ISBN-13: 9780827610453
Stories from the Sephardic Dispersion starts off an important selection of Jewish folktales ever released. it's the first quantity in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume sequence to be published over the subsequent a number of years, within the culture of Louis Ginzberg's vintage, Legends of the Jews. The seventy one stories the following and the others during this sequence were chosen from the Israel Folktale documents (IFA), a treasure condominium of Jewish lore that has remained principally unavailable to the full international beforehand. because the production of the nation of Israel, the IFA has accumulated greater than 20,000 stories from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost tales shared through their households from world wide. The stories come from the foremost ethno-linguistic groups of the Jewish global and are consultant of a large choice of matters and motifs, specially wealthy in Jewish content material and context. all of the stories is followed via in-depth observation that explains the tale's cultural, ancient, and literary heritage and its similarity to different stories within the IFA assortment, and wide scholarly notes. there's additionally an creation that describes the Sephardic tradition and its folks narrative culture, an international map of the parts coated, illustrations, biographies of the creditors and narrators, story style and motif indexes, a topic index, and a complete bibliography. till the institution of the IFA, we had had in basic terms constrained entry to the wide variety of Jewish folks narratives. Even in Israel, the collection position of the main wide-ranging cross-section of worldwide Jewry, those folktales have remained mostly unknown. some of the groups not exist as cohesive societies of their consultant lands; the Holocaust, migration, and alterations in residing kinds have made the continuation of those stories most unlikely. This quantity and the others to return should be monuments to a wealthy yet vanishing oral culture.