Articles
Dina Stein - Rabbinic Tales in the Israel Folktale Archives: Holy Men and Tricksters
Osnat Sharon - Elephant,
Nina Pinto-Abecasis - The Piropo as a Bridge between Cultures in Tetuan (Northern Morocco)
Adam Ratzon - Al ma
Jacqueline Laznow - ‘I didn’t know I wanted to be a rabbi, there was no name for what I wanted to be’: Life Stories of Women Rabbis Living in Israel Towards a History of Folklore
Meir Nizri - Israel and the Sabbath as Bride and Groom in Various Sabbath Hymns
"This Festschrift doubles as a journal issue, and its high quality is what we have come to expect of that journal, in part thanks to Tamar Alexander. Therefore, the Jubilarian has good reasons to be doubly satisfied." - Fabula 2018, Ephraim Nissan
"At Nineveh there was an elephant. Its head is not at all protruding. It is big, eats about two wagon loads of straw at once; its mouth is in its breast, and when it wants to eat it protrudes its lips about two cubits, takes up with it the straw, and puts it into its mouth. When the sultan condemns anybody to death, they say to the elephant, this person is guilty. It then seizes him with its lip, casts him aloft, and kills him..." - Tsur, Ephraim Nissan, March 2017