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Mythology
Jewish and Hebrew


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Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
by David Grossman
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"Yet, beyond the wild impulsiveness, the chaos, the din, we can make out a life story that is, at bottom, the tortured journey of a single, lonely and turbulent soul who never found, anywhere, a true home in the world, whose very body was a harsh place... (read more)

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Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
by Howard Schwartz
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With this collection, Howard Schwartz retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from sources as diverse as Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, the stories are... (read more)

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Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult: The Dybbuk and Thirty Other Classic Stories
Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult: The Dybbuk and Thirty Other Classic Stories
by Joachim Neugroschel
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Brings together a dazzling variety of writers and the most outstanding works of Jewish imagination and folklore.... (read more)

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God Stories
God Stories
by Leila Berg
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As the Talmud says, God made people because God loves stories... The God Stories is a celebration of the spellbinding stories that some readers first meet, in part, in the Bible. Through her research of the Talmud and of folklore, Berg lyrically and... (read more)

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The Hebrew Goddess (Jewish Folklore & Anthropology)
The Hebrew Goddess (Jewish Folklore & Anthropology)
by Raphael Patai
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The Hebrew Goddess demonstrates that the Jewish religion, far from being pure monotheism, contained from earliest times strong polytheistic elements, chief of which was the cult of the mother goddess. Lucidly written and richly illustrated, this third... (read more)

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Yiddish Folktales (88 Edition)
Yiddish Folktales (88 Edition)
by Beatrice Silverman (ed.) Weinreich
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Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe... (read more)

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Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World
Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World
by Howard Schwartz
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Drawing upon their rich religious and cultural heritage--a heritage that stretches back to Biblical times and passes through many varied epochs and environments--Jewish sages, artists, writers, and storytellers have continually created imaginative and... (read more)

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Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales
Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales
by Howard Schwartz
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A vast bounty of tales recounting mystical experiences among the rabbis can be found in the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore. Now, in Gabriel's Palace, scholar Howard Schwartz has collected the greatest of these stories, sacred and... (read more)

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In the Tradition of Moses & Mo
In the Tradition of Moses & Mo
by Bl Serwer Bernstein
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An inspiring collection of Jewish and Arab folktales.... (read more)

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Mimekor Yisrael: Selected Classical Jewish Folktales
Mimekor Yisrael: Selected Classical Jewish Folktales
by Dan Ben Amos
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Bin Gorion's] crowning achievement was Mimekor Yisrael, a multilayered compendium of post-biblical Jewish lore and demonology. --Commentary One of the most extraordinary publishing events in my memory--a huge source of discoveries of the quintessential... (read more)

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Yiddish Folktales
Yiddish Folktales
by Beatrice Weinreich
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Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe... (read more)

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Jewish Folklore & Legend
Jewish Folklore & Legend
by David Goldstein
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Treasury of Jewish Folklore
Treasury of Jewish Folklore
by Nathan Ausbel
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Mimekor Yisreal: Selected Classical Jewish Folktales
Mimekor Yisreal: Selected Classical Jewish Folktales
by Micha Joseph Gorion
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Classic Hassidic Tales
Classic Hassidic Tales
by Meyer Levin
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Classic Hassidic Tales: Marvellous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of His Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold from Hebrew, Yiddish and German
Classic Hassidic Tales: Marvellous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of His Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold from Hebrew, Yiddish and German
by Meyer Levin
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Adam's Rib & Other Anomalous Elements in the Hebrew Creation Myth
Adam's Rib & Other Anomalous Elements in the Hebrew Creation Myth
by Robert Graves
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Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales Abridged and Annotated Edition
Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales Abridged and Annotated Edition
by Micha Jo Bin Gorion
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