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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 oral material from the Middle East and North Africa.
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Text: English, Hebrew (translation)
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The graceful, elegant prose of Israeli novelist and poet Sadeh, expertly translated by American-born Halkin, is continually engaging, even when he is retelling predictable scenarios of a vengeful God smiting down the wicked. But such sternly moralistic tales comprise only a small part of this collection of 200-plus stories drawn from Eastern European, Middle Eastern and North African sources; others transcend their genre time after time with passion, magic and humor that reach out to people of all faiths. The book also includes a brilliant afterword by Sadeh, who muses on how folktales are born and offers cogent analyses of stories he finds particularly significant. In his superb explication of "The Shepherd's Pipe," for example, he shows how each tiny detail in this very brief story is redolent of symbolism, the pipe itself summoning up images of the various trees immortalized in the great religions, "rising upward from the earth to speak of and to man's soul." Sadeh's insights make one wish he could have devoted more space to interpreting each of these wondrous folktales. Illustrated.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0385195737
- ISBN 13 9780385195737
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages443
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