A folkloric research project on Sefer ha-ma’asim.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Rella Kushelevsky
EAN: 9780814342718
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Wayne State University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-01
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GENRE: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Jewish
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
France, French, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), European history: medieval period, middle ages
This welcome edition of the Sefer ha-ma'asim, an anthology of sixty-nine Hebrew tales adapted, arranged, and composed in thirteenth-century France, offers readers a literary feast.--Susan L. Einbinder"AJS Review" (10/22/2020), Sefer ha-Ma'asim is one of the most interesting collections of Hebrew stories that survived from the Middle Ages. In addition to being an entertaining and rich body of medieval folklore, it is one of the most revealing texts about Jewish life and spiritual world- not of the learned elite, but of the larger segments of Jewish society in twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present edition of the early thirteenth century manuscript is one of the most comprehensive scholarly edition of any Hebrew collection of tales known to us from the Middle Ages. It is not only a presentation and translation of texts, but an in-depth study of Jewish minority folklore in Christian Europe.-- (04/24/2017), In Tales in Context, Rella Kushelevsky presents the student and scholar of medieval folklore and Jewish life in Christian Europe with a vital resource. Moreover, her rich and insightful theses about the composition of this work from the literary, scribal and cultural perspectives, coupled with the historical epilogue by Elisheva Baumgarten, will further enlighten readers in a variety of fields.-- (04/24/2017)
Rella Kushelevsky is a distinguished professor of medieval and rabbinic studies at Bar-Ilan University. She is also the author of Moses and the Angel of Death and Penalty and Temptation: Hebrew Tales in Ashkenaz.
