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1 online resource |
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Fables in Jewish Culture: The Jon A Lindseth Collection -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Note -- Jon A. Lindseth, Collector's Foreword -- Emile Schrijver, Preface -- Essays -- Emile Schrijver, Reflections on Fables and Jewish Literature -- David Stern, Fables in the Hebrew Bible and in Rabbinic Literature -- Raphael Loewe, Foxes, Fables, and Gender-Change-Mashal and Paroimia -- Marion Aptroot, Fables in Yiddish Literature -- Irene Zwiep, The Fable and the Problem of Jewish Literature |
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David Daube, Ancient Hebrew Fables: The Inaugural Lecture of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies -- Simona Gronemann, The Sephardic Meshal ha-Kadmoni as an Ashkenazic German Manuscript (MS. Heb. 107, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) -- Catalogue Raisonné -- Bibliographical Principles, by Emile Schrijver -- Annotated Catalogue, by Emile Schrijver and Lies Meiboom -- Bibliography of Fables in Jewish Literature, by Heide Warncke -- Appendices -- 1. Abbreviations -- 2. Index of Individual Fables -- 3. Index of Authors -- 4. Index of Editors and Translators |
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5. Index of Printers, Publishers, and Financiers -- 6. Index of Titles in English or in English Translation -- 7. Index of Full Titles in Hebrew Script -- 8. Index of Full Titles in Latin Script -- 9. Index of Printing Places -- 10. Index of Languages -- 11. Index of Illustrated Books -- 12. Letter from Jack V. Lunzer -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
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Fables in Jewish Culture catalogues almost 400 Jewish scrolls and books from the collection of Jon A. Lindseth that contain animal stories with moral connections. Spanning six centuries, the books are in several languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and Judeo-Persian. They were printed all over the world and include animal stories from the Hebrew Bible and other religious texts as well as translations of secular stories, such as Aesop's fables in Hebrew.The catalogue is divided into four sections--Biblical works, rabbinic works, medieval works, and postmedieval works--and each entry is illustrated with a page or more from the work, a detailed description of the characteristics and publishing history of the work, and description of the fables contained therein, along with a discussion of their literary and/or cultural-historical significance. This volume includes a foreword by Jon A. Lindseth, describing how he assembled this collection of Jewish books containing fables, as well as essays on the role of fables in Jewish culture, their use in Biblical and rabbinical literature, and their appearance in Jewish and Yiddish literature. Fables in Jewish Culture concludes with a bibliography of fables in Jewish literature and multiple indexes that allow readers to locate works by a number of criteria, including fable, author, title (in English, Hebrew, and Latin), and printer.Contributors: Marion Aptroot, David Daube, Simona Gronemann, Jon A. Lindseth, Raphael Loewe, Lies Meiboom, Emile Schrijver, David Stern, Heide Warncke, Irene Zwiep |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 14, 2023) |
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Lindseth, Jon A.
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Lindseth, Jon A. fast |
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Fables, Hebrew.
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Fables, Yiddish.
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Jewish literature.
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Judaica.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
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Fables, Hebrew
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Fables, Yiddish
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Jewish literature
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Electronic book
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Schrijver, Emile G. L., editor.
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Meiboom, Lies, editor.
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Arndt, Sabine, 1978- contributor.
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Aptroot, Marion, contributor.
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| ISBN |
9781501775840 |
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1501775847 |
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