Fables in Jewish Culture : : The Jon A. Lindseth Collection / / Emile Schrijver, Lies Meiboom.

• VerfasserIn: Schrijver, Emile,; Meiboom, Lies,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: second edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Note -- Collector’s Foreword -- Preface -- ESSAYS -- Reflections on Fables and Jewish Literature -- Fables in the Hebrew Bible and in Rabbinic Literature -- Foxes, Fables, and Gender-Change—Mashal and Paroimia -- Fables in Yiddish Literature -- The Fable and the Problem of Jewish Literature -- Ancient Hebrew Fables: The Inaugural Lecture of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies -- The Sephardic Meshal ha-Kadmoni as an Ashkenazic German Manuscript (ms. Heb. 107, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) -- CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ -- Bibliographical Principles -- Annotated Catalogue -- Bibliography of Fables in Jewish Literature -- APPENDICES -- 1. Abbreviations -- 2. Index of Individual Fables -- 3. Index of Authors -- 4. Index of Editors and Translators -- 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 -- Colophon