Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patai, Raphael.

Contributor:

Patai, Raphael, 1910-1996.

Bar-Yitsḥaḳ, Ḥayah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Folklore--Encyclopedias.

Jews -- Folklore -- Encyclopedias.

Jews--Social life and customs--Encyclopedias.

Jews -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (677 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2013.

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.

Summary:

This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Color Plates

Contributors

Introduction

A-Z Entries

A

Aaron

Abraham

Adam

Afghanistan, Jews of

Afterlife

Age and the Aged

Agnon, S.Y.

Alchemy

Alexander, Tamar

Alphabet of Ben Sira

Amulets

Angel of Death

Angels

Animal Folktales

Animals

An-Ski, S

Anthologies

Ararat

Asmodeus

Attias, Moshe

Ausubel, Nathan

Av, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Av)

Av, Ninth of (Tisha Be'Av)

B

Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht)

Badchan (Jester)

Balaam

Bałaban, Mayer (Meir)

Bar and Bat Mitzvah

Bar Kochba, Shimeon

Bar-Itzhak, Haya

Bashevis-Singer, Isaac

Ben Ham'elekh Ve 'ha' nazir

Ben-Amos, Dan

Berdyczewski (Bin-Gorion), Micha Josef

Bialik, Haim Nachman

Birth

Blessing God

Blood Libel

Bride Price

Bronner, Simon J

Brother-Sister Marriage

Bulgaria, Jews of

C

Cahan, Y.L.

Cain and Abel

Canada, Jews of

Cemetery

Charms, Books of

Chelm, The Wise of

Circumcision and Birth Ceremony for Girls

Costume

Czechoslovakia, Jews of

D

David, King

Death

Demon

Demonology

Dialect Stories, Jewish-American

Dreams

Druyanow, Alter

Dundes, Alan

Dybbuk

E

Edot: A Quarterly for Folklore and Ethnology

Egg

Elijah the Prophet

Elisha Ben-Avuyah

Ellis Island

Esther

Esther Scroll

Estherke

Ethiopia, Jews of

Eve

Exemplum

F

Fable

Folk Art

Folk Belief

Folk Dance, Jewish and Israeli

Folk Medicine

Folk Music and Song

Folk Narratives in Israel

Folk Narratives in Rabbinic Literature

Folk Narratives in the Bible

Folk Narratives, Immigration and Absorption

Folk Narratives in the Middle Ages

Folk Narratives, Sephardi

Folk Songs and Poetry, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)

Folk Songs and Poetry, North African.

Folk Songs, Israeli

Food and Foodways

Frenkel, Gizela

G

Gaster, Moses

Gaster, Theodor H.

Georgia, Jews of

Germany, Jews of

Ginzberg, Louis

Goldberg-Mulkiewicz, Olga

Golem

Greece, Jews of

Grünwald, Max

H

Haggadah of Passover

Hagiography

Hair Covering, Women

Hanukkah

Hanukkah Lamp

Hasan-Rokem, Galit

Hasidic Tales

Head Covering, Men

Hebron

Hershele Ostropoler

Holocaust Folklore

Humor

Hungary, Jews of

I

Ibn Ezra, Abraham

Iconography

Illuminated Manuscripts

Independence Day

India, Jews of

Internet Folklore

Iran, Jews of

Iraq, Jews of

Isaac

Israel Folktale Archives

Isserles, Moses Ben Israel, Rabbi (Rama)

Italy, Jews of

J

Jacob (Ya'acov)

Jacobs, Joseph

Jason, Heda

Jerusalem and the Temple

Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Journal

Joha

Joke

Jonah, Book of

Joseph

K

Kabbalah

Kadman, Gurit

Karaites, Eastern European

Ketubbah

Kibbutz, Folklore of

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara

Kurdistan, Jews of

L

Lag Ba'Omer

Lamps and Candles

Languages, Jewish

Languages, Struggle Between

Leah

Legend

Lévy, Isaac Jack

Lewinski, Yom-Tov

Lilienthal, Regina

Lilith

Lullabies

M

Ma'aseh Book (Mayse Bukh)

'Ma'aseh Yerushalmi," The Story of the Jerusalemite

Magic

Manger, Itzik

Māqāma

Marriage

Meir Ba'al Ha'Nes, Rabbi

Memorial Day

Menorah

Messiah and Redeemer

Mezuzah

Midrash

Mimuna Festival

Minhag (Custom)

Minhag Books (Books of Custom)

Minyan

Mizrah

Monsters and Other Mythological Creatures

Month

Moses

Mother (Hannah, Miriam) and Her Seven Sons

Moykher Sforim, Mendele

Museums (Vernacular) in Israel

Museums, Jewish

N

New Year Cards

Noah

North Africa, Jews of

Noy, Dov

O.

Olswanger, Immanuel

Oring, Elliott

Oseh Pele

P

Papercut

Parable

Passover

Patai, Raphael

Peretz, Isaac Leib

Pinto, Rabbi Haim

Plants

Poland, Jews of

Pope, Jewish

Prayer

Prochownik, Abraham

Proverb

Psalms

Purim

Purimshpil

Q

Qinah (Lament)

R

Rabbah bar bar Hannah

Rabbinic Literature

Rachel

Rambam (Maimonides)

Rappoport, Angelo Salomon

Rebekah

Reshumot

Riddles

Romania, Jews of

Rosh Ha'Shana

Russia, Jews of

Ruth

S

Sabar, Shalom

Sadan, Dov

Safed, Legends of

Samael

Samaritans

Sambation

Samson and Delilah

Sarah

Satan

Schwarzbaum, Haim

Sea

Seamen Tales and Traditions

Seder Plate

Segel, Benjamin Wolf

Sehrane

Shabazi, Shalom

Shabbat

Shavuot (The Feast of Weeks)

Shenhar, Aliza

Shimeon Bar Yohai

Shiviti-Menorah

Shofar

Sholem Aleichem

Shtetl

Shtyyah Stone

Shvat, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Shvat)

Simchat Torah Flags

Siporin, Steve

Solomon, King

Spain, Jews of

Stones

Sukkot

Symbols

T

Tamar

Tobit, The Book of

Tombstones

Torah Ark

Torah Ceremonial Objects

Torah Ornaments

Trachtenberg, Joshua

Tribes, Ten Lost

Turkey, Jews of

Tzitzit

U

United States, Jews of

W

Wahl, Saul

Wandering Jew

Western Wall

Women in Rabbinic Literature

Wonder Tale

Writing

Y

Yassif, Eli

Yeda Am

Yemen, jewsof

Yom Kippur

Yosef dela Reina, The Story of

Z

Zipporah

Appendices

The Hebrew Bible

Medieval Compilations

Anthologies of Jewish Folklore

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Patai, Raphael Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions

ISBN:

9780765682956

OCLC:

835647208