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>Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore / Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature
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Year:
2013
Catalog number :
45-005479
ISBN:
978-965-493-710-8
Pages:
866
Language:

Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore / Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature

Textures: Cultures, Literature, Folkore

Vol. 25-26
Synopsis

Volume one:
A List of Galit Hasan-Rokem's Publications
Intimate Dialogue: A Personal View of Galit Hasan-Rokem's Poetry
On the Three 'Who is She...' Questions in the Song of Songs
Rabbi Meir, the Babylonian Talmud, and Menippean Satire
From Narrative Practice to Cultural Poetics: Literary Anthropology and Rabbinic Sense of Self
Noah, his Family, and Other Animals: Midrash, Folklore and the Interpretation of a
Biblical Story (or: Homage to Structuralism)
'The Earthquake in the Valley of Arbel': A Galilean Apocalyptic Tradition and its Historical-Liturgical Context
The Literary-Parable in Seder Eliyahu Raba, in Light of the Homiletic-Parable in Rabbinic Literature
'Unto the Voice of the Girl's Songs': On Singing Women in Medieval Hebrew Poetry (The Andalusian School and it Offshoots)
Intertextual Appropriation as Code: Between Palestine and Spain
Jewish and Christian Dispute Poems on the Relationship between the Body and the Soul
The Sorcerer Balaam According to Midrash Me'am Lo'ez
The Plebeian and the Cultivated Proverb in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote
'Irme Kero Madre' (Mother, I Wsih to Go): The Concept of Jerusalem in a Judeo-Spanish
Folk Song as a Movement between Myth and Praxis
Indescribable Female Beauty: Sephardic Wasfs, the Song of Songs, and Baffled Readers
The Image of the Jew in Yiddish Proverbs
Midrash Eliyahu, Mendelssohn's Version
Freud and the Topos of the Wandering Jew
The Retum of the Wandering Jews(s) in Samuel Hirszenberg's Art
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
English Abstracts

Volume two:
Mitzvot Hannah: Visual Depictons of the 'Three Women's Commandments' among the
Jews of Europe from the Middle Ages to Late Nineteenth Century
Magic Dress of Jewish Groom from Rada'A' - a Town in Yemen
Trousseaus of Jewish Brides from Izmir: Biographical Objects
The Study of Folklore and the Process of Secularization of Modern Jewish Culture
The Power of a Proverb - the Role of a Proverb in Agnon's Story
Four Sages Who Were in Our Town: The Social Milieu in the Rabbinic Study Hall - from the Babylonian Talmud to S.Y. Agnon
Source and Oblivion - Story, Folk and Folktale in Agnon's Writing
Agnon's Biblical Ethnographies: Edo and Enam and the Quest for the Ultimate Song
The Narrative Sub-Structures of S.Y. Agnon's 'The Lady and the Peddler'
Leah Goldberg Meets Brenner
'Deportation Does no Solve Anything' - on 'Khirbet Khizeh' by S. Yizhar
Purim in Sheinkin-Carnival in Tel Aviv of the Eighties
A Yid Gefint an Eytse (Yiddish: A Jew Gets Advice) - A Reading in the Life History and
Proverbs and Sayings of an Israeli Man of Transylvanian Origin in His Life in Communist Romania
'To Make Many More Menachem Mendels': Childlessness, Parturiton, and Creation in Messianic Habad
Men and Women Narrating the Myth of the Creation of Woman - Hegemonic and Subversive Message
'Gobelin' Needlepoint: Introducing the Concept of 'Transitional Object; to the Study of Material Culture
Jews in the Arabic Map: Hebrew Place Names Spoken by Local Arabbs - a Literary-Cultural Reading
The Identity of Israeli Arabs as Reflected in Hebrew-Bases Nicknames
The 'Bible Now': Contemporization, Political Satire and National Memory
'The Princess in the Rock': A South Indian Tale
'He That Travels Far Knows Much'
English Abstracts

Reviews
"Clearly, the Talmudic account of Zimri pulling Cozbi’s hair is farce. A memorable anti-Trump image from the 2016 US presidential campaign showed an actor impersonating Trump, pulling the long hair of a woman, who lowers her head. I was reminded of the Zimri tale..." - Tsur, by Ephraim Nissan, June 2017