About the Book
This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.
Table of Contents:
A; Aaron; Abraham; Adam; Afghanistan, Jews Of; Afikoman; Afterlife; Age and the Aged; Agnon, S.Y. (1888–1970); Akedah; Alchemy; Alexander, Tamar (1945–); Almi, A. (Elia Chaim Scheps); Alphabet of Ben Sira; Amulets; Angel of Death; Angels; Animal Folktales; Animals; An-Ski, S. (1863–1920); Anthologies; Aramaic; Ararat; Armistead, Samuel G.; Asmodeus; Attias, Moshe (1898–1973); Ausubel, Nathan (1899–1986); Av, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Av); Av, Ninth of (Tisha Be'Av); B; Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht) (1700–1760); Badchan (Jester); Balaam; Ba?aban, Mayer (Meir) (1877–1942); Bar and Bat Mitzvah; Bar Kochba, Shimeon; Bar-Itzhak, Haya (1946–); Bar Yohai, Shimeon; Bashevis-Singer, Isaac (1904–1991); Bastomski, Shloyme; Ben Ham'elekh Ve'ha'nazir; Ben-Amos, Dan (1934–); Ben Yehezkel, Mordechai; Berdyczewski (Bin-Gorion), Micha Josef (1865–1921); Beregovski, Moshe; Bernstein, Ignatz; Bialik, Haim Nachman (1873–1934); Birth; Blessing God; Blood Libel; Bride Price; Brith-Milah; Bronner, Simon J. (1954–); Brother-Sister Marriage; Buber, Martin; Bulgaria, Jews of; C; Cahan, Y.L. (1881–1937); Cain and Abel; Canada, Jews of; Cemetery; Charms, Books of; Chelm, The Wise of; Chibut Hakever; Circumcision and Birth Ceremony for Girls; Costume; Custom; Custom Books; Czechoslovakia, Jews of; D; Danilevich, Hershl; David, King; Death; Death by Kiss (Mitat Neshiqah); Demon; Demonology; Dialect Stories, Jewish-American; Dowry; Dreams; Druyanow, Alter (1870–1938); Dundes, Alan (1934–2005); Dybbuk; E; Edot: A Quarterly for Folklore and Ethnology; Egg; Elijah the Prophet; Elisha Ben-Avuyah; Ellis Island; Elzet, Judah (Avidah, Yehuda Leib); Engel, Julius; Esther; Esther Scroll; Estherke; Ethiopia, Jews of; Eve; Evil Eye; Exemplum; F; Fable; Fefer, Itsik; 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 in the Middle Ages; Folk Narratives, Immigration and Absorption; Folk Narratives, Sephardi; Folk Songs; Folk Songs and Poetry, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino); Folk Songs and Poetry, North African; Folk Songs, Israeli; Food and Foodways; Four Species (Arba'at Ha'Minim); Frenkel, Gizela (1895–1984); G; Gaster, Moses (1856–1939); Gaster, Theodor H. (1906–1992); Georgia, Jews of; Germany, Jews of; Ginsburg (Ginzburg), Saul; Ginzberg, Louis (1873–1953); Goldberg-Mulkiewicz, Olga (1933–); Golem; Graubard, Pinhas; Greece, Jews of; Grünwald, Max (1871–1953); H; Haggadah of Passover; Hagiography; Hair Covering, Women; ?anukkah; ?anukkah Lamp; Hasan-Rokem, Galit (1945–); Hasidic Tales; Head Covering, Men; Hebron; Hell (Gehinnom); Hershele Ostropoler; ?evra Kadisha; Historical Ethnographic Society of Vilna; Holle Kreisch; Holocaust Folklore; Hoshana Rabba; Humor; Hungary, Jews of; ?uppah; I; Ibn Ezra, Abraham (C. 1092–1167); 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) (C. 1525–1572); Italy, Jews of; J; Jacob (Ya'acov); Jacobs, Joseph (1854–1916); Jason, Heda (1932–); Jerusalem and the Temple; Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore, Journal; Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society of St. Petersburg; Joha; Joke; Jonah, Book of; Joseph; Judeo Languages; K; Kabbalah; Kadman, Gurit (1897–1987); Kame'a; Karaites, Eastern European; Ketubbah; Kibbutz, Folklore of; Kiddushin; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara; Kisselgof, Zalman; Kurdistan, Jews of; L; Ladino; Lag Ba'Omer; Lamech, Lemech; Lamps and Candles; Languages, Jewish; Languages, Struggle Between; Leah; Legend; Lehman, Shmuel; Lévy, Isaac Jack (1928–); Lew, Henryk; Lewinski, Yom-Tov (1899–1973); Lilienthal, Regina (1877–1924); Lilith; Lithuania, Jews of; Lot; Lot's Wife; Lullabies; Luz; M; Ma'aseh Book (Mayse Bukh); Ma'aseh Yerushalmi, the Story of the Jerusalemite; Magic; Manger, Itzik (1901–1969); Ma'oz Tsur; M?q?ma; Marek, Pesa?; Marriage; Meir Ba'al Ha'nes, Rabbi; Memorial Day; Menorah; Methusela?; Messiah and Redeemer; Mezuzah; Midrash; Mimuna Festival; Minhag (Custom); Minhag Books (Books of Custom); Minyan; Mitteilungen Der Gesellschaft Für Jüdische Volkskunde; Mizra?; Mlotek, Chana; Monsters and Other Mythological Creatures; Month; Moses; Mother (?annah, Miriam) and Her Seven Sons; Mother, Jewish; Mountain Jews; Mourning; Moykher Sforim, Mendele (1835–1917); Museums (Vernacular) in Israel; Museums, Jewish; N; Name, Naming; Narkiss, Mordechai; New Year Cards; Niger, Shmuel; Nitl Nakht; Noah; North Africa, Jews of; Noy, Dov (1920—); O; Olswanger, Immanuel (1888–1961); Oring, Elliott (1945–); Oseh Pele; P; Papercut; Parable; Paradise (Gan Eden); Pascheles, Wolf; Passover; Patai, Raphael (1910–1996); Peretz, Isaac Leib (1851–1915); Pinto, Rabbi Haim (1748–1845); Pipe, Shmuel Zanvel; Plants; Poland, Jews of; Pope, Jewish; Prayer; Prochownik, Abraham; Proverb; Prylucki Noah (Noyekh Prilutski); Psalms; Purim; Purimshpil; Q; Qinah (Lament); R; Rabbah bar bar ?annah; Rabbinic Literature; Rachel; Rambam (Maimonides) (1138–1204); Rappoport, Angelo Salomon (1871–1950); Rebekah; Reshumot; Resurrection; Riddles; Romania, Jews of; Rosh ?odesh; Rosh Ha'Shana; Russia, Jews of; Ruth; S; Sabar, Shalom (B. 1951); Sadan, Dov (1902–1989); Safed, Legends of; Samael; Samaritans; Sambation; Samson and Delilah; Sarah; Satan; Schwarzbaum, Haim (1911–1983); Sea; Seamen Tales and Traditions; Seder Plate; Segel, Benjamin Wolf (1866–1931); Sehrane; Serpent; Seven Benedictions (Sheva Berakhot); Seven Species (Shiv'at Ha'Minim); Shabazi, Shalom (1619–ca. 1680); Shabbat; Shabbat ?atan; Shalit, Moshe; Shavuot (The Feast of Weeks); Shenhar, Aliza (1943–); Sheol; Sheva Berakhot (Seven Benedictions); Shimeon Bar Yo?ai; Shiviti-Menorah; Shofar; Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916); Shtetl; Shtyyah Stone; Shvat, Fifteenth of (Tu Be'Shvat); Silverman Weinreich, Beatrice; Simchat Torah Flags; Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Siporin, Steve (1947–); Slobin, Mark; Sodom; Solomon, King; Soul; Spain, Jews of; Star (Shield) of David; Steinschneider, Moritz; Sternberg (Shternberg), Lev; Stones; Sukkah; Sukkot; Symbols; T; Tamar; Tavayev, I.; Tobit, The Book of; Tombstones; Torah Ark; Torah Ceremonial Objects; Torah Ornaments; Trachtenberg, Joshua (1904–1959); Transmigration of the Soul (Gilgul Neshamot); Tribes, Ten Lost; Turkey, Jews of; Tzitzit; U; Ukraine, Jews of; United States, Jews of; Ushpizin; W; Wahl, Saul (C. 1542–1622); Wandering Jew; Wedding; Western Wall; Women in Rabbinic Literature; Wonder Tale; World to Come (Olam Ha'ba); Writing; Y; Yassif, Eli; Yeda Am; Yemen, Jews of; Yiddish; Yivo Ethnographic Committee; Yom Kippur; Yosef dela Reina, The Story of (Ma'aseh Yosef dela Reina); Z; Zefat; Zipporah; Zlotnick, Yeshayahu
