Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe

الغلاف الأمامي
Jewish Publication Society, 2006 - 624 من الصفحات
This is a collection of 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary backgrounds.

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الصفحات المحددة

المحتوى

Hasidic Tales
57
Holocaust Tales
139
Historical Tales
151
Tales between Jews and NonJews
167
Moral Tales
243
Folktales
347
Humorous Tales
403
Abbreviations
489
Narrators
493
Collectors
505
Bibliography
512
Motif Indexes
589
Tale Type Indexes
608
General Index
619
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

مقاطع مشهورة

الصفحة 258 - Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work — you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.
الصفحة 258 - For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
الصفحة 149 - And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said. Thou art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well pleased.
الصفحة 78 - For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
الصفحة 126 - And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord; to-day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
الصفحة 31 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother ! or, Ah sister ! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord ! or, Ah his glory ! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
الصفحة 415 - And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, and said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
الصفحة 449 - Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord.
الصفحة 259 - Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; 34 but whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out...
الصفحة 520 - Vindiciae Judaeorum, or a letter in answer to certain questions propounded by a noble and learned Gentleman, touching the reproaches cast on the Nation of the Jews, wherein all objections are candidly and yet fully cleared' did more than any other of his writings to perpetuate the name of Menasseh ben Israel.

نبذة عن المؤلف (2006)

Dan Ben-Amos, PhD, is a professor of folklore at the University of Pennsylvania, the general editor of Indiana University Press?s Folklore Series, and the senior editor of Mimekor Yisrael: Folktales of Israel.

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