ISBN:
9780765620255
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (674 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions
DDC:
398.20892/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; List of Color Plates; Editors, Editorial Board and Contributors; Introduction; A; Aaron; Abraham; Adam; Afghanistan, Jews of; Afterlife; Age and the Aged; Agnon, S.Y.; Alchemy; Alexander, Tamar; Alphabet of Ben Sira; Amulets; Angel of Death; Angels; Animal Folktales; Animals; An-Ski, S.; Anthologies; Ararat; Asmodeus; Attias, Moshe; Ausubel, Nathan; Av, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Av); Av, Ninth of (Tisha Be'Av); B; Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht); Badchan (Jester); Balaam; Bałaban, Mayer (Meir); Bar and Bat Mitzvah; Bar Kochba, Shimeon; Bar-Itzhak, Haya; Bashevis-Singer, Isaac
Description / Table of Contents:
Ben Ham'elekhVe'ha'nazirBen-Amos, Dan; Berdyczewski (Bin-Gorion) , Micha Josef; Bialik, Haim Nachman; Birth; Blessing God; Blood Libel; Bride Price; Bronner, Simon J.; Brother-Sister Marriage; Bulgaria, Jews of; C; Cahan, Y.L.; Cain and Abel; Canada, Jews of; Cemetery; Charms, Books of; Chelm, The Wise of; Circumcision and Birth Ceremony for Girls; Costume; Czechoslovakia, Jews of; D; David, King; Death; Demon; Demonology; Dialect Stories, Jewish-American; Dreams; Druyanow, Alter; Dundes, Alan; Dybbuk; E; Edot : A Quarterly forFolklore and Ethnology; Egg; Elijah the Prophet; Elisha Ben-Avuyah
Description / Table of Contents:
Ellis IslandEsther; Esther Scroll; Estherke; Ethiopia, Jews of; Eve; Exemplum; F; Fable; Folk Art; Folk Belief; Folk Dance, Jewish and Israeli; Folk Medicine; Folk Music and Song; Folk Narratives in Israel; Folk Narratives in Rabbinic Literature; Folk Narratives in the Bible; Folk Narratives in the Middle Ages; Folk Narratives, Immigration and Absorption; Folk Narratives, Sephardi; Folk Songs and Poetry, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino); Folk Songs and Poetry, North African; Folk Songs, Israeli; Food and Foodways; Frenkel, Gizela; G; Gaster, Moses; Gaster, Theodor H.; Georgia, Jews of; Germany, Jews of
Description / Table of Contents:
Ginzberg, LouisGoldberg-Mulkiewicz, Olga; Golem; Greece, Jews of; Grünwald, Max; H; Haggadah of Passover; Hagiography; Hair Covering, Women; Hanukkah; Hanukkah Lamp; Hasan-Rokem, Galit; Hasidic Tales; Head Covering, Men; Hebron; Hershele Ostropoler; Holocaust Folklore; Humor; Hungary, Jews of; I; Ibn Ezra, Abraham; Iconography; Illuminated Manuscripts; Independence Day; India, Jews of; Internet Folklore; Iran, Jews of; Iraq , Jews of; Isaac; Israel Folktale Archives; Isserles, Moses BenIsrael, Rabbi (Rama); Italy , Jews of; J; Jacob (Ya'acov); Jacobs, Joseph; Jason, Heda
Description / Table of Contents:
Jerusalem and the TempleJerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Journal; Joha; Joke; Jonah, Book of; Joseph; K; Kabbalah; Kadman, Gurit; Karaites, Eastern European; Ketubbah; Kibbutz, Folklore of; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara; Kurdistan, Jews of; L; Lag Ba'Omer; Lamps and Candles; Languages, Jewish; Languages, Struggle Between; Leah; Legend; Lévy, Isaac Jack; Lewinski, Yom-Tov; Lilienthal, Regina; Lilith; Lullabies; M; Ma'aseh Book(Mayse Bukh); "Ma'aseh Yerushalmi," The Story of theJerusalemite; Magic; Manger, Itzik; Maqama; Marriage; Meir Ba'al Ha'Nes, Rabb; Memorial Day; Menorah
Description / Table of Contents:
Messiah and Redeemer
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Description based upon print version of record
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