Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library. Yiddish Folktales : Library of Yiddish Classics
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Naked truths and resplendent parables: allegorical tales -- A rooster and a hen, let the story begin: children's tales -- Magic rings, feathers of gold, mountains of glass: wonder tales -- Justice, faith, and everyday morals: pious tales -- Nitwits, wits, and pranksters: humorous tales -- Sages, tsadikim, and villains: legends -- Elves and dibbuks, ghosts and golems: supernatural tales.
A compendium of two hundred Yiddish folktales, collected during the 1920s and 1930s from people of all walks of life in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe.
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Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
PUBLISHED
New York : Published in cooperation with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0805210903
9780805210903
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Weinreich, Beatrice.
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
SUBJECTS
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Folklore.
Folk literature, Yiddish -- Translations into English.
Folk literature, Yiddish -- Europe, Eastern.
Folk literature.