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Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
by Howard Schwartz  Publisher Comments Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as...
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Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
by David Grossman Publisher Comments "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...
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Pomegranate Seeds: Latin American Jewish Tales (Jewish Latin America)
by Nadia Nagarajan Publisher Comments The first collection of the oral tradition of Latin American Jews to be presented in English....
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Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult: The Dybbuk and Thirty Other Classic Stories
by Joachim Neugroschel Publisher Comments Brings together a dazzling variety of writers and the most outstanding works of Jewish imagination and folklore....
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God Stories
by Leila Berg Publisher Comments 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...
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Sampler of Jewish-american Folklore (92 Edition)
by Josepha Sherman Publisher Comments Someone once observed that A Jew is composed of 28 percent fear, 2 percent sugar, and 70 percent nerve. Certainly, the Jews have needed every bit of that nerve over centuries of persecution. The struggle and triumph of Jewishness, author Josepha Sherman...
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Robert Graves & the Hebrew Myths: A Collaboration
by Raphael Patai Book News Annotation Tells the story of the 30-year friendship between Graves and Patai, and in particular, of the literary collaboration that culminated in their joint authorship of the book Hebrew myths: the book of Genesis. In addition to the nearly 200 letters they...
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Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
by Howard Schwartz Publisher Comments 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...
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Solomon and the Ant (06 Edition)
by Oberman Publisher Comments A chronologically arranged collection of more than forty Jewish folktales with commentary, including "The Seven Questions of Alexander the Great," "A Special Way of Thinking," and "Which One Was Blind?"...
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Jewish Folktales
by Pinhas Sadeh Publisher Comments Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales. It draws from both traditional Eastern European literary sources and the vast body of...
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Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit
by Abram Davidson Publisher Comments This collection of Avram Davidson's complete Jewish stories dates from the author's experiences during World War II to his untimely death in 1993. It includes gems like The Golem, Nephillim, The Fisherman...A Tashlich Legend, plus the never-before...
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Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World
by Howard Schwartz Publisher Comments 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...
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Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales
by Howard Schwartz Publisher Comments 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...
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Jewish Folklore in America
by David Max Eichhorn Publisher Comments The country is divided in six regions and the episodes contained within each are presented chronologically. These vignettes, anecdotes, and historical episodes are enlightening, sobering and above all highly entertaining....
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Night Tales of the Shammas
by Michael Jay Katz Publisher Comments An old synagogue caretaker in medieval Europe spins classic Jewish fables that have been handed down through the centuries....
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In the Tradition of Moses & Mo
by Bl Serwer Bernstein Publisher Comments An inspiring collection of Jewish and Arab folktales....
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Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt Am Main, 1697 (Jewish Folklore & Anthropology)
by Moshe Wallich Synopsis Book of Fables is a bilingual edition of Sefer Mesholim, an important collection of fables that was published in Yiddish in 1695. Occupying a significant and interesting place in Yiddish literary history, Sefer Mesholim provides valuable insight...
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Nonpareil Book #90: Fables of a Jewish Aesop: Translated from the Fox Fables of Berechiah Ha-Nakdan
by Moses Hadas
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Bird of Paradise & Other Sabbath Stories
by Steven M Rosman
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Ancient Israel Volume 2 Myths & Legends
by Angelo Rappoport
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