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9780814327890: Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin: Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
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The first appearance of Jews in Poland and their adventures during their early years of settlement in the country are concealed in undocumented shadows of history. What survived are legends of origin that early chroniclers, historians, writers, and folklore scholars transcribed, thus contributing to their preservation. Haya Bar-Itzhak examines the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community creates its own chronicle, how it structures and consolidates its identity through stories about its founding, and how this identity varies from age to age. Bar-Itzhak also examines what happened to these legends after the extermination of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust, when the human space they describe no longer exists except in memory. For the Polish Jews after the Holocaust, the legends of origin undergo a fascinating transformation into legends of destruction. Jewish Poland-Legends of Origin brings to light the more obscure legends of origin as well as those already well known.

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Haya Bar-Itzhak examines the legends of origin of the Jews of Poland and discloses how the community is created.
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Haya Bar-Itzhak is the head of folklore studies and chair of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel.

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  • PublisherWayne State University Press
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 0814327893
  • ISBN 13 9780814327890
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages195

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