Fables in Jewish Culture : : The Jon A. Lindseth Collection / / Emile Schrijver, Lies Meiboom.
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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | second edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (568 p.) |
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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