Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Folktales of Joha, Jewish trickster / collected and edited by Matilda Koén-Sarano ; translated from the Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) by David Herman ; illustrations by Ezra Masch
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2003

Copies

Description 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Summary Joha has Janus's double face: On the one hand, he is innocent and stupid; on the other, a trickster. He is a cheater and is cheated. He sets traps for others and falls into traps himself; he is simpleton and liar, victimizer and victim. But as a literary figure he never dies. The nearly 300 stories in this lovely volume are from Sephardic oral literature and ethnic culture. They were told to Matilda Koen-Sarano in their original language, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), and documented over 21 years. From 17 countries, including the United States, they come together in this first-ever collection of Joh
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Print version record
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Nasreddin, Hoca, active 13th century -- Folklore
SUBJECT Nasreddin, Hoca, active 13th century fast
Nasreddin Hoca. swd
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Humoreske
Englisch.
Juden.
Genre/Form Folklore
Form Electronic book
Author Koén-Sarano, Matilda, 1939-
LC no. 2002153401
ISBN 9780827610149
0827610149
1283805847
9781283805841